Washington State Income Tax Bill Introduced

Washington State Legislature ^ | February 6, 2007 | Self

[Mini-14]

Here’s the proposed bill:
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Joint%20Resolutions/8209-State%20income%20tax.pdf

Sponsored by

• Senator Rosa Franklin
  http://www1.leg.wa.gov/senate/franklin
   
• Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles
  http://www1.leg.wa.gov/senate/kohl-welles 

[goldstategop]

The Democrats tax everything that breathes and dies. Washington State has no state income tax. Apparently the existing revenue is insufficient for the needs of the state's government.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

It has no chance of passage unless the Democrats give up one of the other two main revenue streams: the sales and property tax. Which they will not do.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[CyberCowboy777]

Don't forget the eternally unfair B&O tax.

[johnny33]

As liberal as Washingtonians are, they do not trust the state government at all.
This is true, but its urban Seattle core often sets the direction of the entire state. However to push an income tax the libs will have to go up against the well-funded tech base, who votes Republican even though the libs like to pretend that the tech sector is the natural result of liberal rule.