by Tim Eyman | Feb 27, 2017
Approved by the voters in 2007, Initiative 960 continues to do its job. Initiative 960 puts every tax and fee increase bill under the brightest spotlight imaginable. It requires the state budget office to identify any revenue-raising bill, calculate how much...
by Tim Eyman | Feb 24, 2017
This week, all of the House Democrats voted to raise taxes $3000 on a family of four EACH YEAR. That’s $11.7 billion total ($7.2 billion over 4 years and then $6.5 per two-year budget thereafter). $3000 annually on a family of four. And so if...
by Tim Eyman | Feb 20, 2017
Democrats are obsessed with raising taxes this session. Inslee’s request bills are now confirmed to cost taxpayers $51.2 billion. That’s right: $51 BILLION. It’s truly obscene: HB 1555 (Inslee’s massive new carbon tax imposed on...
by Tim Eyman | Feb 17, 2017
The hearing room was packed full of powerful lobbyists, specialy interest groups, officials, and politicians who all said that the people don’t support the 1% property tax cap anymore. They were asking the Legislature to empower state and local governments to...
by Tim Eyman | Feb 14, 2017
In 2001, we sponsored and voters passed a 1% cap on property tax increases. In 2007, after the supreme court decided that voters had been “misled” into voting for the initiative (the goofiest court ruling EVER), the Legislature readopted the 1% cap with...
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