One thing I'm not clear on...
Is that on employees working only in Seattle, or is that on ALL employees working for companies that are headquartered in Seattle?
Can't see how it would be the first case, but I wouldn't put it past those aholes to try.
For years Seattle, San Francisco, etc. have gone out of their way to lure large companies (often with tax payer funded incentives) to their cities to bolster employment, city prestige, tax coffers, but now that they're reaping the inevitable outcome -- traffic, jumps in housing prices, crime, homelessness, etc., -- they're screaming bloody murder.
Well what the *expletive deleted*ck did these idiots thing would happen?