Senate Republican leaders are denouncing the passage of an income-tax on capital gains. The measure now heads to the house. The views expressed by individual members are not necessarily those of the entire caucus.
The State Senator from the 12th Legislative District votes “no” on a state income tax proposal passed by the Senate. Tracy Ellis has details.
A bill that would create an income tax was passed by The Democrat majority in the state Senate. Tracy Ellis reports.
Republican State Senator Mark Schoesler is featured explaining why the tax, which just passed out of the Ways and Means Committee, is bad for the state. https://youtu.be/Ta3mOhzwOoM
State Senate Republicans are coming out hard against the majority-Democrats’ new income-tax bill, but Tracy Ellis tells us they’re also offering solutions.
The orcas won’t want to hear this, but the $54 billion budget Governor Inslee brought out last week is not the proposal he was required to submit to the Legislature. Under a state law dating to at least 1959, the governor is to provide a budget document based on “the...
Governor Inslee had included tax increases in all six budgets he’d submitted to the Legislature during his time in office. I figured he was a lock to make it 7-for-7, in the proposal he’d be putting on the table for 2019. Even so, I was amazed by what the governor...
Published opinion pieces from members of the Majority Coalition Caucus draw the connections between McCleary and the long-running effort to impose an income tax. Senate Majority Leader Mark Schoesler, in The (Spokane) Spokesman-Review, Jan. 8, 2017: Income tax...
Whether a capital gains income tax is constitutional is one issue; whether it would end with that is another. Capital gains income tax revenue is highly volatile, as are other taxes aimed at the wealthy. When the economy goes into a downturn, lawmakers will be left to...
Advocates of an income tax last year managed to collect signatures to place one proposal on the ballot in the city of Olympia. When voters rejected the idea, they took their campaign to the city of Seattle -- where the council voted May 1 to direct staff to come up...
Proposals for an income tax -- even in the form of a narrowly based tax on capital gains income -- are prompting dismay among those who recognize Washington's unique economy is built around its unique tax structure. Consequences could be dramatic. Matt...
