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Tim Eyman Slashes, Gov. Gregoire and Speaker Chopp Don't Fight
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Governor Gregoire and the legislature propose raising the regressive sales tax to overcome the budget shortfall that was caused by decades of tax cuts for the rich, reckless deregulation, and disastrous wars. Why don’t they instead eliminate some of the billions of dollars in tax breaks that benefit the 1%? See Demand Tax Fairness in […]
Tax-break Boeing needs to get to work
Posted on Author John Burbank
So how about that $8.7 billion tax give-away Boeing just received to build the 777X? We have been here before. In 2003, the Legislature excused Boeing from $4 billion in taxes, in order to build the 787 in our state. What happened to that $4 billion? Over $1 billion was used to construct a copycat […]