Hold on to your Butts. Warning TLDR
Things Gov. Ferguson already taxes
1. Clothing and apparel
2. Electronics
3. Furniture
4. Appliances
5. Vehicles new and used
6. Books
7. Toys and games
8. Bicycles, golf clubs, basketballs
9. Cosmetics and beauty products
10. Jewelry
11. Home improvement materials
12. Digital downloads
13. Prewritten computer software
14. Streaming services and digital subscriptions
15. Hotel and motel lodging
16. Haircuts and salon services
17. Repair services such as car repairs, appliance fixes
18. Installation services (appliances, flooring etc)
19. Cleaning services
20. Landscaping and lawn maintenance services
21. Construction services for home remodeling
22. Personal training or fitness classes
23. Tanning services
24. Tattoo services
25. Car washes
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Not to mention gas tax and climate gas tax, heating your home tax, pot tax, alcohol, car tabs, property taxes , business licenses etc etc etc etc etc.
And you still can’t live within your budget. So now you want an unconstitutional millionaires tax
Because you have done polling and if you can tempt Brian Heywood to run an initiative against you then your union bosses are all lined up to spend $10’s of millions of dollars to paint me, millionaires, business owners, entrepreneurs, small manufacturers, successful start ups and anyone stupid enough to help grow the economy here as villains, as bad guys who are making it harder for the average citizen. When, in point of fact, it is your party who for 40 years has been taxing and spending while failing miserably in schools, roads, infrastructure, crime, homelessness, affordability. It is all on you.
You want citizens to:
Please ignore the billions you already take from citizens making their life more expensive.
Please ignore the $9billion you just increased taxes by and still can’t keep up with the wasteful spending increases
Please ignore the money that has been incompetently lost by the state
Please ignore the money that has fraudulently disappeared from state coffers
Please ignore the fact that you cannot track the impact on the climate of the $4.5 billion and counting you have taken from struggling citizens at the pump just from the CCA hidden gas tax
Oh and please ignore the constitution and the law that was passed last year that prohibits the state, counties, or cities from issuing an income tax
And don’t forget that Olympia democrats are already defining millionaires as people making $125K or more a year
And above all everyone please ignore the absolutely horrible polling numbers that show Bob Ferguson is not a popular guy. He needs union money and union support quick or he might get challenged from the Left so here he is to sacrifice the formerly thriving business community on the alter of Union demands.
Millionaires move, average citizens get screwed. This played out in California, and is beginning to happen in WA state.
BREAKING: I support a Millionaires’ Tax on income over $1 million a year.
The fairness of our tax system ranks 50th. Let’s make this historic change this session.
This is a separate proposal from the budget I announced today — revenue would not be realized until 2029.