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Ever since Seattle passed a head tax on hundreds of businesses, rumors of a business boycott list have emerged. One business owner says he’s on it.

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Dan Austin owns , a pizza and cocktail bar in West Seattle. In the week following the head tax passage, he says he began receiving messages via social media from people he didn’t know. They were informing him that he was being put on a Seattle business boycott list.

“Giving me a heads up that on Sawant’s personal page, some followers of hers had seen my posts, were not happy about it and started looking for a way to create a boycott list so evil businesses like mine did not get support from their followers,” Austin told KTTH Radio’s Jason Rantz.

Austin has publicly expressed that he does not support the Seattle head tax. He thinks that is what put him on the radar of head tax supporters. He expects he will be on a Seattle business boycott list if it is created.

“It’s to paint me as a negative person, which if you look at my business history we won the emerging business of the year in West Seattle from the chamber of commerce, mostly for our community giveback,” Austin said. “We are helping restore public art in West Seattle … we work with the food bank on a regular basis, donating my time to bartend their charity events, and (we gave) over 2,000 pounds of turkeys for Thanksgiving to families in need last year.”

“And then I’m seeing Facebook posts that I’m somehow a right-wing nut job Conservative in Seattle who doesn’t care about homeless people,” he said. “And that is incredibly infuriating. They want to shut down people — and I believe myself and other folks will be the example — to try to get us to not to fight this.”

“They’re just trying to intimidate at this point and that is the worst style of politics,” he added. “It’s the stuff they scream about the other side doing, and yet they are doing the same thing. Quite frankly, they might even be better at it.”

Getting on a Seattle business boycott list

Austin said that his opposition to the head tax is primarily based on how it will affect small businesses like his own, not the large companies that many think of.

“I have no thoughts that there isn’t a lot of homeless in Seattle,” he said. “I deal with it daily. Some of these people really need some help. I just think this is the wrong road to go down to find a solution to the problem. Going after large businesses that create income in taxes and for people to spend at small, local businesses, that is the wrong place to go after to fund solutions.”

Peel and Press does not make enough money each year to qualify for the $20 million level that will be taxed in Seattle. He won’t be affected by the head tax, at least not directly.

“I do not do $20 million in sales … but all of my vendors pretty much do,” Austin said. “So as a small restaurant, I’ve already been told by the majority of my vendors that their prices will be going up. So that means I will pass along as much as I can to my customers through menu increases. Can’t pass it all along. So for the third year in a row, I will do more in sales and make less in profit.”