Posted on 02/06/2007 12:36:02 PM PST by 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
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I take it the state of Washington does not currently have an income tax?
No, it has none.
Washington state doesn't have an income tax? Well, I'll be damned. Hope springs eternal after all.
Good God! The a**esholes are trying it again. Sheesh!
Um... Idaho already HAS an income tax.
they do have patty osama mama murray and baghdad jim macdermot tho.
It requires a vote of the people. It will not pass. As liberal as Washingtonians are, they do not trust the state government at all.
I hope you are correct. My adult son live in Washington.
I realize that. Washington is already taxing its residents at a level sufficient to run government. Now they are preparing to heap an additional tax burden on top of that.
You don't really expect the Washington state government to reduce sales or property taxes do you? They intend the income tax on top of what they are currently collecting.
I believe it also requires a constitutional amendment.
They can have a sales tax or an income tax, but not both.
More bad news for Washington ping...
They'll have to get it past the voters, and that will be a really tough sell (even in WA).
Other than this proposal, if it wasn't for job, I would live in WA near the OR border and do my shopping in OR - no sales tax.
Hey, we got something like a 2+ billion dollar surplus from the gas tax. (which was supposed to benefit ALL Washingtonians).
But they're gonna shoot that wad on a mile and a half of viaduct, so keep track of whatever potholes are close to you, cause they're gonna be there for a while!
WA State Ping...JFK
However, we have a 8.8 percent sales tax and a B & O tax on businesses. The B & O taxes you on your gross sales.
That'd be Senate Joint Resolution 8209;
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profiles?location=95
We also have multiple demands to raise sales taxes along with 14 cents a gallon tax increases in the last 3 years to help pay for highway improvements (disneyland rides, Big Dig, monorails, streetcars, you name it) totaling over 134 billion dollars in just 3 counties, and they still claim to be at least 66 billion dollars short.
1st year school administrators (office help) just got a 50% salary increase, State Patrol is getting an additional COLA up to 10% just to help them with high mortgages (due partly because of new taxes), so now all the other public employees (roughly 25 or 30% of the population I think) want the same double COLA.....It would not take much of an exodus to send this state crashing through the plate glass foundation on which it stands.
Sometimes it feels like living in a Leper colony ~ how long can it possibly last?
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