Tomorrow’s OSPI tax plan: Democrat Chris Reykdal’s tax schemes even worse …

by Tim Eyman | May 16, 2017

House and Senate Republicans are unified in pursuing a no-new-taxes budget. Inslee’s tax-hiking plan is a non-starter and completely crazy. The House Democrats’ schemes are a tax-hiking extravaganza that voters clearly oppose.

Olympia Democrat Chris Reykdal is the new Superintendent of Public Instruction and tomorrow morning (Wednesday) his office is going to release his own tax-hiking budget scheme. It’s gonna be what you’d expect from an Olympia Democrat: capital gains taxes, property taxes, and other taxes imposed on Washington’s citizenry.

What Reykdal wants to do is propose a budget that agrees with the House Democrats’ tax-hiking approach. Then he can say “I, the nonpartisan OSPI chief, have looked at both approaches — the no-new-taxes budget of the Republicans and the tax-heavy budget of the Democrats and I endorse the Democrats’ tax-hiking approach.”

What a joke.

Tomorrow when the press is breathlessly reporting and fawning over Reykdal’s “compromise” budget, you and I will know the truth: that it’s just a Democrat-lite tax hiking scheme that moves us no closer to ending this year’s legislative session.

We’ve repeatedly shown that 2/3 of voters strongly oppose the Legislature raising taxes this year (cut out Seattle voters and the percentage of anti-tax voters is even higher than 2/3 in swing districts outside Seattle).

House and Senate Democrats are only representing Seattle when it comes to taxes. And Inslee is wearing a dunce cap, watching the process from a corner in the room.

We’re taxed enough already.

I ask you — RIGHT NOW — to email this, or something like this to ALL legislators:

“House and Senate Democrats, the people are opposed to the Legislature raising taxes this year. $3 billion in additional revenue from our existing tax burden is more than enough to adopt a no-new-taxes budget.

You need to accept the reality that Sound Transit’s $54 billion tax-hiking pig-out has completely sucked all the oxygen out of the room. Skyrocketing car tab taxes, burdensome property taxes, crushing sales taxes — the cupboard is already bare.

We’re taxed enough already. There’s no way the taxpayers will tolerate higher taxes this year, not with Sound Transit’s car tab rip-off. To all legislators: vote NO on any tax increase bills this year.”

Cut and paste these email addresses into the To line or BCC line of your email — here’s the 98 House members:

sherry.appleton@leg.wa.gov; andrew.barkis@leg.wa.gov; steve.bergquist@leg.wa.gov; brian.blake@leg.wa.gov; vincent.buys@leg.wa.gov;

michelle.caldier@leg.wa.gov; bruce.chandler@leg.wa.gov; mike.chapman@leg.wa.gov; frank.chopp@leg.wa.gov; judy.clibborn@leg.wa.gov; eileen.cody@leg.wa.gov; cary.condotta@leg.wa.gov;

richard.debolt@leg.wa.gov; tom.dent@leg.wa.gov; beth.doglio@leg.wa.gov; laurie.dolan@leg.wa.gov; mary.dye@leg.wa.gov; jessyn.farrell@leg.wa.gov; jake.fey@leg.wa.gov; joe.fitzgibbon@leg.wa.gov;

noel.frame@leg.wa.gov; roger.goodman@leg.wa.gov; paul.graves@leg.wa.gov; mia.gregerson@leg.wa.gov; dan.griffey@leg.wa.gov; larry.haler@leg.wa.gov; drew.hansen@leg.wa.gov; mark.hargrove@leg.wa.gov; mark.harmsworth@leg.wa.gov;

paul.harris@leg.wa.gov; dave.hayes@leg.wa.gov; jeff.holy@leg.wa.gov; zack.hudgins@leg.wa.gov; morgan.irwin@leg.wa.gov; bill.jenkin@leg.wa.gov; laurie.jinkins@leg.wa.gov; norm.johnson@leg.wa.gov;

ruth.kagi@leg.wa.gov; christine.kilduff@leg.wa.gov; steve.kirby@leg.wa.gov; brad.klippert@leg.wa.gov; shelley.kloba@leg.wa.gov; john.koster@leg.wa.gov; vicki.kraft@leg.wa.gov; joel.kretz@leg.wa.gov; dan.kristiansen@leg.wa.gov;

john.lovick@leg.wa.gov; kristine.lytton@leg.wa.gov; drew.macewen@leg.wa.gov; nicole.macri@leg.wa.gov; matt.manweller@leg.wa.gov; jacquelin.maycumber@leg.wa.gov; joan.mcbride@leg.wa.gov; gina.mccabe@leg.wa.gov;

bob.mccaslin@leg.wa.gov; jeff.morris@leg.wa.gov; dick.muri@leg.wa.gov; terry.nealey@leg.wa.gov; ed.orcutt@leg.wa.gov; timm.ormsby@leg.wa.gov; lillian.ortiz-self@leg.wa.gov; tina.orwall@leg.wa.gov; kevin.parker@leg.wa.gov;

mike.pellicciotti@leg.wa.gov; strom.peterson@leg.wa.gov; eric.pettigrew@leg.wa.gov; liz.pike@leg.wa.gov; gerry.pollet@leg.wa.gov; kristine.reeves@leg.wa.gov; marcus.riccelli@leg.wa.gov; june.robinson@leg.wa.gov; jay.rodne@leg.wa.gov;

cindy.ryu@leg.wa.gov; sharontomiko.santos@leg.wa.gov; david.sawyer@leg.wa.gov; joe.schmick@leg.wa.gov; mike.sells@leg.wa.gov; tana.senn@leg.wa.gov; matt.shea@leg.wa.gov; vandana.slatter@leg.wa.gov; norma.smith@leg.wa.gov;

larry.springer@leg.wa.gov; melanie.stambaugh@leg.wa.gov; derek.stanford@leg.wa.gov; mike.steele@leg.wa.gov; drew.stokesbary@leg.wa.gov; monica.stonier@leg.wa.gov; pat.sullivan@leg.wa.gov; gael.tarleton@leg.wa.gov; david.taylor@leg.wa.gov;