Washington’s ref 1098, a surtax on the very wealthy, succumbed to an effort to paint it as tax increase. Now State Rep. Larry Seaquist (D-Gig Harbor) is offering a very clever alternative: ask the voters to fund real needs by eliminating nonproductive tax preferences, loopholes.
David Goldstein at Horseass, reports on this
“Let voters decide for themselves what they value more: adequately funding K-12 education, or providing special interest tax exemptions to, say, gold bullion dealers and newspaper publishers?A former Navy captain and commander of the USS Iowa, Rep. Seaquist presumably knows a thing or two about leadership. His colleagues in Olympia would do well to follow his lead on this issue.”