The Rough Beast Slouches Toward Olympia To Be Reborn Yet Again
If legislative leaders get their way, we will have a whopping new
income tax next year and a big new bureaucracy to implement it. You can hear my
take on it by listening to the video message.
At about
noon today (Thursday), we learned that the Senate Ways and Means Committee will
hold a hearing on a tax proposal at 4:30 p.m. (today). For the second time this
week, the contents of a proposed tax bill were not available to the public in
advance. Nonetheless, Amber Gunn will do her best to testify on behalf of
taxpayers.
The intent of the bill was made clear in a blog by Senator
Lisa Brown, its architect. She wants to pass a “temporary”
three-tenths-of-a-cent sales tax increase to go into effect immediately. Coupled
with her proposal is a referendum to the people, giving them the opportunity in
November to repeal that three-tenths-of-a-cent increase and an
additional half-cent off the state sales tax in exchange.
for a high earners’ 4.5 % income tax.
Please
read Amber Gunn’s blog for more details and watch Amber
and Bob as they explained our budget problem on KING 5’s Up Front last Sunday.
They are using sneaky, class warfare strategy to
get the camel’s nose under the tent. Brown and her liberal colleagues have long
wanted an income tax, and this is the way she intends to implement it. Don’t
think for a minute the tax would be relegated only to “high earners.” In a few
years, it would encompass most of us.
Perhaps the most crass part is
Brown’s assertion that she wants to “let the voters decide.” That’s hard to
swallow considering the public had less than five hours notice to testify on a
bill whose contents were not publicly disclosed. Add to that the eight times
before voters have said “no” to an income tax.
So what can you do?
First, please communicate your thoughts about this issue to your elected
representatives. I’d love to hear that their phone lines were swamped and their
emails flooded.
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