Washington state has one in all if not essentially the most regressive tax constructions within the nation, whereas paradoxically we’re thought-about to be a blue state. Politicians advocate for piecemeal strategies to make corrections to the system, which doesn’t herald sufficient income to run the applications that residents discover necessary. A number of the cuts are a travesty.
As an alternative of piecemeal stabs at correcting these shortfalls, it’s time to have a look at wiping the slate clear and beginning over and doing it proper. I suggest a invoice from our lawmakers to type a committee, appointed by the governor, to take a 12 months to evaluate our financial wants and totally study all taxes and charges within the state in any respect ranges of presidency, with the concept of creating sweeping suggestions to proper the ship and create a good, uniformly and steeply graduated tax and charge construction, with ratios.
This may increasingly embody amending our Structure and voting on a number of legal guidelines and contingencies on the state and native ranges in 2027. The overwhelming majority mustn’t find yourself paying extra.
Within the meantime, let’s piecemeal via 2026 and “tax the millionaires!”
Jeanie Bein, Bellingham
