Sen. Mark Schoesler talks about an income tax on capital gains that passed out of committee and low carbon fuel standards with John Carlson on KVI.
SRC On Air: Sen. Mark Schoesler on The Commute with Carlson on KVI Radio
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AUDIO: Valentine’s Day Department of Health Mistake and an Income Tax on Capital Gains
A state Department of Health mistake and an income tax on capital gains aren’t very good Valentine’s Day presents according to a state Senator. Tracy Ellis explains.
VIDEO: Sen. Mark Schoesler – 2021 session update (Jan. 27)
9th District Sen. Mark Schoesler of Ritzville gives an update on the 2021 legislative session. He discusses the public hearing on the capital gains income tax proposal that attracted many people who wanted to testify, and SB 5114, which seeks to move the state to...
SRC On Air: Sen. Mark Schoesler on The Commute with Carlson on KVI Radio
Sen. Mark Schoesler talks about vaccinations, transportation taxes, and reopening Washington with John Carlson on KVI.
SRC On Air: Sen. Mark Schoesler on The Commute with Carlson on KVI Radio
Sen. Mark Schoesler talks about reopening our economy, the departing Employment Security Director, transportation and more with John Carlson on KVI.
VIDEO: Sens. Ericksen, Braun and Schoesler talk Gov. COVID order on KOMO TV
Republican state Senators Doug Ericksen, John Braun and Mark Schoesler react to Governor Jay Inslee's COVID restrictions on KOMO TV CLICK TO WATCH
The $30 million marbled murrelet tax
-- December 6, 2019 Just when I thought 2019 couldn’t get worse for the hardworking taxpayers of Washington, the state Board of Natural Resources this week adopted DNR’s controversial plan to expand protection for the marbled murrelet. This little seabird spends about...
Inslee blows the call on taxpayer-subsidized security
Two years ago this week, Democrat and Republican lawmakers joined to pass one of the most important tax-fairness bills I’ve seen. SB 5977 would have reduced the B&O tax on all manufacturing to match the lower rate extended to aerospace in 2013. I say “would have”...
The mugging of the taxpayers
Governor Inslee recently engaged in an amazing bit of revisionist history about his role in negotiating a reduction in tax rates for Washington’s aerospace industry. Back in November 2013 he called the agreement “great news for every Washingtonian.” Now, maybe to...
Inslee misses deadline for releasing real budget – and why that budget is the real story
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...
A generational solution that puts students, hard-working taxpayers first
I’m reminded today how more than seven years ago, a group of Republican senators proposed a way to significantly increase state funding for public schools and in turn take the pressure off local school districts to come up with money for basic education. I was a...
School administrators look to Goebbels, Lenin for advice?
Wearing a T-shirt with an image of a prominent Nazi war criminal might be enough to get a student sent home. But the Washington Association of School Administrators thinks it is OK to share public-relations advice from a prominent Nazi war criminal if you’re trying to...