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Seattle City Council proposes local capital gains tax

Seattle City Council members will take up a local capital gains tax measure Tuesday, targeting the city’s wealthiest residents.

But as KNKX reporter Gabriel Spitzer explains, it’s not easy for a city to create its own progressive tax.

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Gabriel Spitzer is a fill-in reporter, producer and host who previously covered science and health and worked on the KNKX show Sound Effect.