Efforts are now underway to gather signatures to put the tax on jobs passed by the City Council and signed into law by Mayor Jenny Durkan. If you would like to see the tax repealed, the first stop in that process is for enough signatures to be gathered to get the issue on the ballot. The effort underway intends to gather about 25,000 signatures to be sure that they validate and get an item on the ballot for the November election. It is a sprint to get that many signatures to meet the mid June deadline. Remember, the Council said we need $400 million a year to “solve” homelessness, that’s why we need $75 million a year in a tax on jobs, but we’ll accept about $50 million a year. The Mayor agreed. Anyone with common sense and a calculator can tell you that this proposal is bogus; even if you think Amazon created homelessness this proposal does about zero to “solve” the problem, even if you believe the $400 million number.