Sometimes we might sound like a broken record here at Shift, but that’s because the liberals in Washington keep trying to do the same silly things. Today we highlight three of their usual causes.
First, the state income tax is back in the news, because Republicans are saying – accurately – that Democrats want one, and Democrat state legislative candidates are claiming – in a panic – they don’t want one, or don’t want the one Republicans are talking about, or maybe they don’t support the income tax Jay Inslee has proposed, or perhaps have never heard that such a tax is listed as a “guiding principle” in the platform of the party that they wished to represent in Olympia.
Blah, blah, blah.
Additionally, we put a spotlight on the big money – $100,000 today – flowing in from a Massachusetts group into I-1464, our state’s initiative to get big money out of politics. Only in Democrat circles can you make this claim with a straight face.
And, also seemingly with a straight face, the Seattle Department of Transportation is pushing the city council to throw another $200,000 into the failed bicycle ride-share program Pronto. Hey, it’s not their money, why not!
Or maybe they could hit up those folks in Massachusetts to have them fund the bikes hardly anybody rides, since they have money to burn.