As we head into the final weekend of the year, Shift is wrapping up our series on the lumps of coal which Jay Inslee put into our stockings at Christmas. Today’s highlight is on a relatively small tax … [Read more...]
Inslee’s Lump of Coal #4: Let’s sock it to small businesses
Jay Inslee has big (spending) plans for the next two-year budget - a 21% increase is his wish list for more big-government state spending starting in July. As Shift has covered this week, Inslee wants … [Read more...]
Lump #2 of Inslee coal in your stocking: A new state income tax
Shift is using the last week of 2016 to review the lumps of coal which Jay Inslee put in the stockings of Washington taxpayers at Christmas, in the form of his big-government, tax-and-spend … [Read more...]
Cantwell wants attention, attacks EPA nominee
Evidently, Senator Maria Cant(do)well has not been getting enough attention lately, since she wasn’t running for re-election this year. However, since she does have to run in 2018, the state’s … [Read more...]
Campaign must be over – Inslee breaking tax promises again
Jay Inslee has made a habit out of campaigning against tax increases before elections, and then breaking those promises after the voters in Seattle elect him (he has lost the vote in 2012 and 2016 in … [Read more...]
Friday Funny: What’s the wackiest Seattle policy?
Liberals across the country – and especially in the Soviet of Seattle – have filled up the internet lately attacking every new policy idea (or even old ones) coming out of the new presidential … [Read more...]
Radical environmentalists at work – to stop others from working
Olympia protesters have been trying to attract attention lately, complaining that the Port of Olympia is doing what it’s supposed to do by providing a place where construction materials can be … [Read more...]
Seattle Council keeps fighting free enterprise
One of the many extreme anti-business measures taken up by the Seattle City Council to please their union campaign financers was one to regulate for-hire driver companies, like Uber. As described … [Read more...]
Surprise, surprise – renewable fuels standard is failing
You might recall that in Jay Inslee’s “best-selling” book Apollo’s Fire (currently available for one penny), the former bulldozer driver predicted great things for cellulosic ethanol. In fact, he … [Read more...]
Can EPA change fast enough to help WA state?
Shift has frequently written (here and here ) about the so-called “Fish Consumption” water quality rules that Jay Inslee has been working on since taking office in 2013. Unfortunately for taxpayers … [Read more...]
Ignore the voters: Enviro propaganda push in the Times
The Seattle Times was very vocal during the campaign season it is editorial opposition to the silly carbon tax contained in Initiative 732. However, since the initiative went down in flames at the … [Read more...]
Dems demand ‘green’ energy – unless we already have it
Democrats from Jay Inslee on down to his extreme enviro campaign donors love to rant about how much we need to generate more “green energy” – except when we are already producing it. Such is the … [Read more...]