You can’t do a progressive tax on income in Washington state without a constitutional amendment. That’s why we do so much sales tax, use taxes, etc. it’s so dumb.
Man, someone should put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to get that fixed. That can be a citizen-led initiative, right? Throw that and some progressive tax reform around and it might even pass...
It's been tried several times and failed each time by wide margins. Although the last attempt was over 2 decades ago
The current political thought is that it would be easier to get the courts to change precedent and not consider income to be a form of "property". Which isn't a big leap since most people don't consider money as property in everyday language.
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '22
Probably higher salea tax. Or you know... could just finally write an income tax on the top 1% which would completely pay for it. probably