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Lawmakers Want to Raid Police & Firefighters Pensions to Cover Spending
For the second year in a row, the legislative majority in Olympia is treating Washington's pension funds like a piggy bank to paper over their spending problems.Last session, lawmakers passed ESSB 5357, which raised the…
Are you a public employee with a pension? The income tax is coming for you too
1. Proposed income tax strips long-standing protections for public and private pensions.2. The bill's amendments to multiple RCW sections, such as 2.10.180, 2.12.090, and 2.14.100, explicitly ends exemptions for…
Senate Bill 5496 – When governments tell you what you can buy and sell
Washington state's housing crisis is real. High home prices, limited supply, and families squeezed out of homeownership. But the legislature's response in Senate Bill 5496 (E2SSB 5496) is a misguided overreach that…
Senate shenanigans: Income tax debate, double-standards
Watch Senate floor debate over the as-of-yet unconstitutional income tax that Washington state lawmakers have proposed in Senate Bill 6346. Spoiler alert: The Democratic-led Senate ended up passing the penalty on high-income…
State lawmakers considering a bill to make health care less affordable
Making it difficult or unlikely that health care workers get paid for their services does not make health care more affordable in our state. It shifts some people’s costs onto others, and it treats providers unfairly.Medical…
Mamdani Gets an Important Tax Fact Wrong
At a hearing in Albany last week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani lobbied state lawmakers to help him balance the city’s finances with a two-percentage-point hike in the city’s income tax on people making over $1 million.…
Democrats signal retreat on the death tax as exodus fears mount
Recent articles from the Seattle Times, one on the wealth tax, the other on the Seattle head tax, underscore a growing reckoning in Washington state.Now it seems even the most ardent tax politicians are taking a pause by…
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson thinks the residents she represents are ‘Filthy Rich’
In a Seattle Times' recent column, "Another ‘millionaires tax’ finds Seattle is far richer than anyone knew," celebrates a $115 million haul from the city's 5% tax on compensation over $1 million, far…
The Shift in Jayapal’s Farmworker Policy
When OneAmerica, originally called Hate Free Zone, was formed by U.S. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, prior to her current role, it was “in response to anti-immigrant hate,” according to the organization’s website.However,…
No State Income Tax for Washington
No State Income Tax for Washington Our state is facing many challenges. Street-level homelessness and drug addiction are an epidemic. Student test scores are down. Our environmental policies are not achieving promised…
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