Washington State voters defeated I-1098—a state-wide initiative that would have implemented a state income tax– in 2010 by a 28% margin. Unfortunately, as SHIFT reported in the past, 64% of Washingtonians voting against a state income tax is not enough to fend off Democrats. In its latest party platform, the Washington State Democratic Party described a state income tax as a “guiding principle,” a goal for the future of Washington State.
A key step for Democrats to realize their goal is re-gaining control of the state Senate from the Majority Coalition Caucus (MCC). That’s what Democrats are fighting for in 2014 mid-term elections.
Some Democrat candidates avoid overtly supporting an income tax and instead declare support for “new revenue options,” as is the case for state Senate candidate Chris Eggen (D, 32nd District). State Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-36th District), currently seeking re-election, advocates “enacting fair and progressive tax reform” that reverses “unfortunate and unacceptable income inequality…” Other Democrat candidates do not shy away from supporting a state income tax, revealing their unwillingness to listen to voters.
Recently, a far left blog in Seattle released a list of its endorsed 2014 primary candidates in which it celebrates three Democrat candidates who support the implementation of a state income tax. The far left blog states that State Senator David Frockt, seeking re-election in the 46th LD, “favors significant taxes on the wealthy—a capital gains tax, income tax, and closing corporate tax loopholes…” Additionally,Pramila Jayapal, seeking election for state Senate in the 37th LD, supports “smart, progressive policies—including an income tax on the rich…” And, 48th LD state Senate candidate Cyrus Habib hopes to “eventually passing a capital-gains tax or an income tax on the rich.”
Democrats’ message may often appear vague, but their intention is clear. When taking into consideration the Democrat-controlled state House, their state income tax agenda becomes obvious. During the 2014 legislative session, state Rep. Marko Liias (D-Mukilteo) gained a total of 16 Democrat co-sponsors for his state income tax bill (HB 1545).
Democrats prove time and time again that listening to voters is not in their playbook. Democrat legislators will continue to turn a deaf ear to voters’ message on I-1098 in their pursuit of a state income tax.
Maybe they will change their tune when they don’t get re-elected….
Unfortunately they probably will be re-elected with their “tax the rich” lie. Then all the liberal idiots will find out that THEY are the rich that are getting taxed out of existence to fund the socialist utopia and it will all be those mean republicans fault.
Don’t count on it. This state is full of morons who elected Murray and Cantwell.
Speaking of morons…..
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Have any more “burning” questions about peeing !???
Yep, Murray/Cantwell voter…
Come and listen to a story about a man named cAndyWood head
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin crude.
Crapola that is, brown gold, Twit teabagger.
Hey bagger, how is Ned’s penis ?
I forsee a straight jacket with your name on it, fatso…
Poor baby, still pining for Lew’s penis ???
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Bring it, lard butt. The only thing stopping you is fear…
IF you WERE a man, I’d have already won the wager….
Since, you’re not & you’ve proven it, try writing about my penis or whatever crapola, that distracts from your failure life.
Oh right…
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Yawn, penis breath with a hint of deadwood = cAndy No Wood, the furnace filter FAILURE !!!
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Jim Moeller also want to change the constitution to allow for an income tax. He thinks taxes are always the solution. Choose more this August! Select Lisa Ross.
“….also want…”?
You meant wants, right ?? HILARIOUS !!!! Poor Lisa, first post, right down the drain.
From Fat Pat Costello the human walrus, who also thinks he’s the punctuation police. Dude, take a break from your rabid hate posting and finish that bag of Ho-Ho’s…
Poor baby, still pining for Lew’s penis ???
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Still trying to discover yours through all the blubber?
Here folks is the political savvy of the bagger/failure…. Penis points.
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Yawn. Incoherent rambling…
Yawn, penis breath with a hint of useless deadwood………
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Must be scary inside your head…
Poor cAndy Wood =Failed Furnace Filter Fruitcake.
Look hon, 4-f just like usual……
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Let me compliment you on your decision to get drunk and play with
your computer, instead of getting in your car. You’ve made a fool of
yourself and Republicans, but at least you didn’t kill anybody! For
that, I salute you. Middle finger, like ALWAYS !!
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If you try to find the total State debt at anywhere at wa.gov, you won’t find it. You will just find a confusing table listing the “debt limit” on one side (but it’s actually listing the debt service limit) and “debt service payments” on the other side. This deceptively makes it look like we only have around a Billion dollar in State debt. In reality, State debt is close to 90 Billion Dollars, or (and to calculate this simply Google “90 billion divided by 7 million”) about $13,000 per man woman and child. So Washington State does not have a tax problem. We have a Democratic Congress spending problem. And if we adopted a State income tax, they would only increase spending by a commensurate percentage to increase debt servicing to a level were it is again near the maximum allowed by the State Constitution.
Almost no citizens of the State of Washington know that the State Congress has borrowed enough money in their name personally to buy a new car. If you add that $13,000 per capita debt to the $22,000 President Obama has added to per capita Federal debt for every man woman and child in the U.S., and the $33,000 of per capita Federal debt which existed before President Obama came to office (a meaningful percentage of that generated under Republicans under Bush who had turned their backs on the Republican Revolution) you can see that every man, woman and child in the State of Washington – including a child born in a baby ward today – owes about $70,000 as their share of just State and Federal debt. For an average household, a mother and father with two kids, that’s $52,000 in State debt, probably equal to a quarter or more of their property value, plus $220,000 in Federal debt, for a combined debt burden of $272,000 in State and Federal Debt for just their household.
Share these figures with your friends and family. Remember the next time you step into a voting booth and have a choice between a Democrat / establishment Republican candidate, and a Tea Party / true fiscal conservative candidate.
http://ballotpedia.org/Washington_state_budget#State_debt
Taxing Boeing, who pays less than US…about time….