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The Income Tax and Your Pension Olympia stripped the pension exemption protecting your pension from being taxed— even though "You Won't Be Affected" Warning TLDR Washington's new 9.9% income tax has a $1 million threshold. And every politician who voted for it will tell you: "Don't worry — this only hits millionaires. State employees, teachers, firefighters — you're safe." (However, firefighters please ignore the fact that we must raided your pension for the general fund) Then why did they rewrite the pension protection statute? Here's what they actually did. Every public pension in Washington — PERS, TRS, LEOFF, State Patrol, teachers, school employees — had a law on the books that said your pension was: "exempt from any state, county, municipal, or other local tax" That protection has been there for decades. ESSB 6346 added a new subsection to each of those 13 statutes that says this: "Subsection (1) of this section does not exempt any pension or other benefit received under this chapter from tax under Title 82A RCW." Title 82A is the new income tax. So here's the question: If the $1 million threshold protects you, why did they need to strip the pension exemption at all? The existing exemption — "exempt from any state tax" — would have protected you automatically. They didn't need to touch it. If their guarantee is real, the exemption stripping would be meaningless. Unless it's not meaningless. The only reason to surgically remove pension protections from 13 separate statutes is to build the infrastructure to tax those pensions later — when the threshold comes down. And it will come down. They've already done the legal work removing your exemption. The only thing standing between your pension and a 9.9% tax are promises from legislators who brag about making pie crust promises— easily made easily broken. — and now it can be change any time they want. Olympia tells you not to worry. But they have taken away the only legal protection that would have made worrying unnecessary.

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Hey @grok did Governor Bob Ferguson have the ability to do a line item veto on the "necessity clause" on ESSB 6346, in order to preserve the right of voter referendum?

C'mon. @BobFergusonGov Enough pandering. You aren't looking forward to the voters having a say. If you wanted the voters to actually have a say, you would've line-item veto'ed the emergency clause on ESSB 6346. That would've preserved the right of voter referendum on this heinous bill. BUT. YOU. CHOSE. NOT. TO.

ESSB to lotnisko normalne. Nie jest rządowym, czy inaczej wyróżnionym. Jak tu pierwszy raz przyjechałem w 1967 roku, było to jedyne międzynarodowe lotnisko w Sztokholmie. Arlanda była jeszcze w budowie. Do połowy lat 80-tych SAS miał tam swoją kwaterę główną, z siedzibą szefa na wszszystkie 3 kraje. Okazjonalnie pracowałem tam. Budowla stoi do dziś, choć wygląda już dość obciachowo. Cała Bromma rozwija się rześko, pewnie niedługo ten pomnik historii zburzą. Odkąd pamiętam toczą się dyskusje na temat zlikwidowania Brommy. Od zawsze decydują politycy. Bliżej do Bromma niż na Arlandę…. W związku z powyższym sądzę, że długo jeszcze postoi. Dużo lotów krajowych jest właśnie z Brommy. Głównie mniejsze samoloty. Powtarzam decyduje… hałas, bo inaczej mieszkańcy się pieklą. Ja kiedyś przez prawie rok co tydzień latałem do Göteborg z ESSB niezapomnianym BAe 146-200, wycofany już. Teraz latają ATR… też fajnie. Radzą sobie dobrze.

Jakbyś się kiedyś wybierała do Szwecji… daj znać. Znam trochę fajnych miejsc przy okolicznych lotniskach. Najlepsze jest w Skavsta (NYO/ESKN). Problem jest, że tam rzadko coś ciekawego ląduje. Mogą się jednak trafić samoloty ochrony wybrzeża, starty i lądowania awionetek, też bywają zabawne. Bromma. (BMA/ESSB). Centrum Sztokholmu (z grubsza). Regularne połączenie z Brukselą. (A319) większe są zabronione z uwagi na hałas. Królestwo wszelkiego rodzaju business jet. Politycy, szamani, influencerzy właśnie stamtąd latają. Można się napatrzeć. Da się podejść blisko. (Przy odrobinie szczęścia, właśnie tam zrobisz fotkę @Flyboy_Pete ) Arlanda. (ARN/ESSA). Lotnisko sztandarowe. Trudno podejść, ale są miejsca. Trafia się dużo fajnego i dziś już może niecodziennego Cargo. Powtarzam, trudno znaleźć fajne miejsce (jak już się znajdzie, to się wiatr zmieni). Da się jednak. Zapraszam.

🚨JUST IN: Washington’s Supreme Court on Monday rejected Let's Go WA's effort to force a referendum this fall on the state’s new income tax on high earners. The Justices ruled that the law’s “necessity clause” is valid, shielding the tax from a public referendum because it supports existing state government functions. Chief Justice Debra Stephens wrote that the decision follows the state constitution and precedent. 🟦CHIEF JUSTICE STEVENS: "Consistent with the words of the constitution and our unbroken line of precedent, we hold that ESSB 6346 falls within the exception for laws that are 'necessary for the . . . support of the state government' and not subject to referendum under article II, section 1.... The petitioners’ request for a writ of mandamus is denied" The ruling leaves opponents, led by Brian Heywood’s Let’s Go Washington, with the option of an initiative. That path requires nearly double the signatures — 308,911 by July 2 for the ballot. Heywood called the decision a “blank check” for lawmakers. House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon, D-Seattle, welcomed the outcome as good news for tax reform. A separate constitutional challenge—filed by Citizen Action Defense Fund (CADF), former Attorney General Rob McKenna, and former Supreme Court Justice and State Senator Phil Talmadge—to the statewide income tax is still pending. 👉 FULL ARTICLE: lynnwoodtimes.com/2026/05/04…

Washington State ESSB 5167 (2025) Special Appropriations to the Governor $1.17 Billion I can only guess that the Washington State authoritarians don't want the peasants (people) to know what's going on in the Washington State Legislature. I had to put the bill text into a PDF Reader in order to do a word search. ESSB 5127 is a 1,367 page document. I would say that this is very, very BAD when your state government is HIDING legislative bill text from the people. @PNWForestKing @AAGDhillon @JDVance

Washington State SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TO THE GOVERNOR ~ $1.14 BILLION DOLLARS April 30, 2026 ESSB 5167 (2025) 2025-2027 Omnibus Operating Appropriations Act Washington State's main biennial operating budget bill, often referred to as the "Omnibus Budget." It covers the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium and includes Part VII: Special Appropriations, which contains the "Special Appropriations to the Governor" budget entity/line item. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?… ** For a deeper dive on this story, go to Shane Kidwell on Substack. NOTE: They’ve DISABLED the text search function for ALL WA State legislative bill texts in PDF format. You have to put the legislative bill into a PDF Reader in order to do a word search on a Washington State Legislative Bill. lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/bienn… @JDVance @AAGDhillon @PNWForestKing Post by Ks:

For eleven straight years, a Washington state budget line called "Special Appropriations to the Governor" had zero staff. Zero. Every year until 2026 that is... In fiscal year 2026, it has 20.5 full-time positions and $1.14 billion in public funds. That number comes directly from the Washington Office of Financial Management's own statewide staffing history at ofm.wa.gov. It is not an interpretation. It is on the state's public record. Here is what this budget line actually does, in OFM's own words: "Special Appropriations to the Governor has been created as a budget entity to separate appropriations that the Governor allocates to other state agencies. Once the allocation is made, expenditures are recorded in the receiving agency." Translation: the legislature puts money into a pool. The governor's office decides which agencies get what and when. The allocation decisions happen inside the governor's office, not in a public legislative vote on that specific use. For context: the entire Office of the Governor proper has 161 Full Time Employees (FTE) and $70.6 million in total appropriations for this biennium. The Special Appropriations pool managed by those 20 positions is sixteen times larger than the governor's direct office budget. The bill that created this structure, ESSB 5167, passed the Senate 28-19 and the House 52-45. Every yes vote was a Democrat. Every no vote was a Republican, per the legislative vote record. It was signed by Governor Ferguson on May 20, 2025. The governor's office has stated the expansion was necessary to respond to federal funding uncertainty from the Trump administration. That explanation may be entirely accurate. It does not change what the structure is. Over a billion dollars flowing through a single pool. Allocation decisions made inside the governor's office. By staff who do not appear on any public vote record. Zero staff for eleven years. Then twenty, managing $1.14 billion. And the average Washington taxpayer has no idea this line exists. I publish the full research and sourced breakdowns on Substack every week. Search Shane Kidwell if you want the deeper dive.

Washington's budget bill is 1,367 pages. The legislature wrote over 100 pages of spending conditions for the Department of Commerce. Grants specified down to the city and the nonprofit. Dollar amounts. Named purposes. Lapse provisions if the money is not used correctly. For the governor's $1.14 billion discretionary pool, the legislature wrote three sentences. No named programs. No reporting requirements. No restrictions on how allocations are made. That is in the same bill. ESSB 5167, signed May 20, 2025. Per the conference report at fiscal.wa.gov, those three sentences govern $1.14 billion in total budgeted funds. The bill passed 28-19 in the Senate and 52-45 in the House, per the legislative record. Every yes vote was a Democrat. Every no vote was a Republican. $150,000 to a Yakima gang prevention nonprofit. Fifty pages of conditions. $1.14 billion to the governor's pool. Three sentences. That is the bill they passed. Read it yourself. I publish the full research and sourced breakdowns on Substack every week. Search Shane Kidwell if you want the deeper dive. @GovBobFerguson @komonews @KING5Seattle @KIRO7Seattle @fox13seattle @seattletimes

For eleven straight years, a Washington state budget line called "Special Appropriations to the Governor" had zero staff. Zero. Every year from FY2014 through FY2025. Until 2026 In FY2026, it has 20.5 full-time positions (FTE) and $1.14 billion in public funds. That number comes directly from the Washington Office of Financial Management's own statewide staffing history at ofm.wa.gov. It is not an interpretation. It is on the state's public record. Here is what this budget line actually does, in OFM's own words: "Special Appropriations to the Governor has been created as a budget entity to separate appropriations that the Governor allocates to other state agencies. Once the allocation is made, expenditures are recorded in the receiving agency." Translation: the legislature puts money into a pool. The governor's office decides which agencies get what and when. The allocation decisions happen inside the governor's office, not in a public legislative vote on that specific use. For context: the entire Office of the Governor proper has 161 FTE and $70.6 million in total appropriations for this biennium. The Special Appropriations pool managed by those 20 positions is sixteen times larger than the governor's direct office budget. The bill that created this structure, ESSB 5167, passed the Senate 28-19 and the House 52-45. Every yes vote was a Democrat. Every no vote was a Republican, per the legislative vote record. It was signed by Governor Ferguson on May 20, 2025. The governor's office has stated the expansion was necessary to respond to federal funding uncertainty from the Trump administration. That explanation may be entirely accurate. It does not change what the structure is. Over a billion dollars flowing through a single pool. Allocation decisions made inside the governor's office. By staff who do not appear on any public vote record. Zero staff for eleven years. Then twenty, managing $1.14 billion. And the average Washington taxpayer has no idea this line exists. I publish the full research and sourced breakdowns on Substack every week. Search Shane Kidwell if you want the deeper dive. @WaGov_US got me on this. We are talking about a discretionary pool of over $1.1 billion that flows through a single budget entity controlled by the governor's office, with 20 staff managing the allocations, zero elected oversight of how those dollars get distributed to agencies, and a history of zero FTE in this line from FY2014 through FY2025. @GovBobFerguson @KING5Seattle @komonews @KIRO7Seattle @fox13seattle @seattletimes

Washington state has enacted several targeted AI-related laws in recent years, focusing primarily on transparency for AI-generated content, safety for AI companion chatbots, protections against deepfakes, and ongoing study via a task force. There is no comprehensive “AI regulation” like some other states’ high-risk AI rules, but these measures address specific risks such as misinformation, harm to minors, and deception.2 Key Laws (as of April 2026) 1. HB 2225 (2026) – Regulation of AI Companion Chatbots •Signed: March 24, 2026 (Chapter 168, Laws of 2026). •Effective: January 1, 2027. •Applies to: “Operators” of AI companion chatbots (systems designed for ongoing, human-like interactions/relationships, e.g., like advanced versions of ChatGPT or Claude for personal use). Excludes narrow-purpose tools like basic customer service bots.1 •Main requirements: ◦Safeguards for minors, including limits on manipulative, explicit, or harmful content. ◦Protocols to detect and respond to signs of self-harm, suicide ideation, or eating disorders (e.g., redirect to crisis hotlines). ◦Disclosures that the chatbot is AI (not human). ◦Enforcement by the Attorney General, plus a private right of action (users can sue). Violations treated as unfair/deceptive acts under the Consumer Protection Act.5 •This is described as the first-in-the-nation law specifically regulating AI chatbots for safety.4 2. HB 1170 (E2SHB 1170, 2026) – AI Content Provenance and Disclosures •Signed: March 24, 2026 (Chapter 167, Laws of 2026). •Effective: February 1, 2027. •Applies to “Covered providers”: Entities producing generative AI systems with >1 million monthly users, publicly accessible in Washington for personal use (large companies like those behind major image/video/audio generators). Excludes government, B2B uses, video games, minor edits (e.g., cropping, brightness), and upscaling/noise reduction.36 •Main requirements: ◦Embed provenance data (e.g., watermarks or metadata, using standards like C2PA) in AI-created or “materially altered” images, video, or audio to allow users to verify origin/authenticity. Must be tamper-resistant where commercially/technically reasonable. ◦Provide detection tools for users. ◦Government agencies must disclose when interacting with AI systems. •Enforcement: Attorney General only (Consumer Protection Act violations).2 3. Deepfake/Right of Publicity Protections (SSB 5886, 2026) •Expands Washington’s existing right-of-publicity law to prohibit unauthorized AI-generated digital replicas (audio/video likenesses) of individuals. Signed in March 2026; effective June 11, 2026.6 AI Task Force (ESSB 5838, 2024) •Established in 2024 and administered by the Attorney General’s Office. •It studies AI uses, risks (including to equity, workforce, privacy, and ethics), benefits, and recommends future legislation/guidelines. •Reports: Preliminary (2024), Interim (Dec 2025), Final (due July 1, 2026). It has held public meetings and produced a literature review.0 Other Context •Governor’s Executive Order (24-01): Earlier guidance for state agencies on ethical/transparent use of generative AI.7 •Additional proposals (e.g., on high-risk AI discrimination, schools, labor bargaining) have been discussed but the above are the main enacted laws. •Washington builds on prior narrower rules (e.g., facial recognition limits).13 These laws emphasize transparency, child safety, and consumer protection rather than broad bans or licensing. For full text, check the Washington Legislature site (app.leg.wa.gov) or the AG’s AI Task Force page.

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I was not that listener, but I too received a response early today to my message to him OPPOSED. (My opposition was primarily focused on how WA has a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and that he seems wholly uninterested in fraud.) —— Thanks for your message. I am the prime sponsor of ESSB 6346, the Millionaires Tax. I devoted a recent newsletter to the bill, which Governor Ferguson signed last week. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your concerns about affordability and the sustainability of the state budget and believe that the bill addresses both. I would start by noting that the growth of the state operating budget over the last 10 years is mostly explained by (1) inflation; (2) population growth; and (3) a large shift of property tax authority from school districts to the state, which was part of how we resolved the McCleary school funding litigation in 2018. The key drivers of the remaining growth have been: higher education, as a result of the 2019 passage of the Workforce Education Investment Account (where we have had greater than expected use of the Washington college grant and other student aid); child care, as a result of the 2021 passage of the Fair Start for Kids Act (we have had dramatically greater spending in the Working Connections Child Care program); and the state’s tort liability, largely flowing from a decision by the Supreme Court that eliminated the statute of limitations on claims for childhood sexual abuse. This growth – paired with a 90-year old tax system that relies primarily on a sales tax on goods (50%); the state property tax (10%); and the business and occupation tax (25%) – has led to a structural budget deficit for the state government. In the 2025-27 operating budget, we faced a shortfall of about $16 billion over four years. We resolved that last year with a combination of roughly $7 billion in spending reductions and $9 billion in additional taxes. The federal government promptly threw that out of balance again with large cuts to health and human service programs, such as Medicaid and food stamps, combined with new spending requirement (e.g. building IT systems to kick poor people off of Medicaid). As we developed the Millionaires Tax proposal, we worked closely with business community leaders both on the structure of the tax and on creating a process for a serious examination of the drivers of growth in the state budget. That resulted in the creation in this year’s supplemental operating budget of the Joint Legislative-Executive Committee on Budget Transparency and Fiscal Sustainability (you can find the full text at Section 907 of the supplemental operating budget). That group, which will include business and labor leaders as well as legislators and executive branch fiscal experts, is charged with reviewing: Revenue growth projections and spending assumptions in the four-year budget outlook; statutory cost drivers and their effect on carryforward and maintenance levels; and relevant budget practices in other states (year 1) Management staffing levels, administrative overhead costs, and performance management practices; public reporting tools and data accessibility; and relevant budget practices in other states (year 2). I am very much looking forward to seeing the conclusions of that group. (cont’d in next post)