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State Supreme Court strikes down super-majority requirement for raising taxes
As we’ve been asserting for years, Tim Eyman’s initiatives requiring a super-majority requirement for the legislature to pass tax increases is unconstitutional. As reported in the Seattle P-I, and as you can see for...
SB 5011 would reverse progress on sustainable development
Right wing, anti-government activists are pushing a state bill to weaken growth management in Washington State. SB 5011 – 2013-14 would prohibit ” the state of Washington and its political subdivisions from adopting and developing...
U.S. Deficit Shrinking At Fastest Pace Since WWII, Before Fiscal Cliff
U.S. Deficit Shrinking At Fastest Pace Since WWII, Before Fiscal Cliff “Believe it or not, the federal deficit has fallen faster over the past three years than it has in any such stretch since...
Social Security is not broke: speeches by Economist Dean Baker and Dr. Marilyn Watkins
“Economist Dean Baker and Dr. Marilyn Watkins (EOI) explain how Social Security is an insurance program that really works for retirees, disabled workers and survivors. Since our pension system has been dismantled by corporations,...
Five proposed bills would amend the State Constutition to impose supermajority requirements for raising taxes
Our ideological opponent, the Washington Policy Center, is reporting, in Proposed Constitutional Amendments Would Require Supermajority Vote for Tax Increases, that five constitutional amendments to require a supermajority vote to raise taxes have been...
Washington Conservation Voters' mistake
Washington Conservation Voters is looking for volunteers for Tuesday, 2/25/13 (that’s tomorrow), to doorbell and persuade voters on Mercer Island to contact Republican State Senator Steve Litzow and ask him to support WCV’s Clean...
The Tea Party to the Rescue?
I’m tempted to to say it: hallelujah for the Tea Party and for Ron Paul Republicans! President Obama and the Democrats couldn’t find the will or the way to cut the outrageous military budget....
Opposition to tolling I-90 and to gas taxes
The other day I got in US mail a flier from NoTollOnI90.org.   The state is considering tolling I-90 to pay for reconstruction of the SR520 bridge over Lake Washington. The NoTollOnI90.org organization has a Mercer...