Cato Institute released its “Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors” today. Jay Inslee is one of only eight governors in the country to earn an “F” grade based on job performance since 2012. According to Cato, Inslee’s “F” grade “stems from his poor record on taxes.” Specifically, Cato points to Inslee’s broken campaign promises.
After promising not to raise taxes while on the campaign trail, Inslee “proposed over $1 billion in new taxes over the budget biennium” just a few months after he took office. Although the tax increases have not been passed, Inslee’s tax proposals would extend “a temporary increase in the business and occupation tax, increased beer taxes, and broadening the sales tax base.”
Inslee’s plan to fund his multibillion-dollar transportation package with tax increases—including a hike in gas taxes—solidified his “F” grade.
No surprise to the residents of Washington State! Inslee is an Obama want-a-be and is totally clueless on what our great State needs and wants….true to his Liberial stupidity he doesn’t get the facts about how an economy really works and thinks that the answer to everything is raising taxes!
Hard to believe the working class in this state keep voting in the Dem’s to run things. They have been in power pretty much for the last 30 plus years, and the state keeps going down hill! Good job, Lib’s!
The hard working class is not who is keeping people like Inslee in office — it is the massive voter power of the liberal Seattle metropolitan area. Don’t believe that? Check the county-by-county voting results for last election.
And the surprise here is????? We should be congratulated for electing an “F” Governor. What a loser! Liberal Seattle carried the vote for Washington AGAIN.
You are right of course, SGM, but my point here is that there must be some working people, even in the Seattle area, who seem to wish for the ultra-left tax and spend crowd and the hair-brain BS that they pull to stay in power and increase our tax load!