The politically tonedeaf tax-and-spenders are at it again in the Washington State Senate today.
Uber-leftist state senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles, (Communist-Seattle) read what must have been the thoughts of another Senator in a drunken stupor, who posted on a blog something like "Gee... wouldn't it be swell if in the midst of all of the other tax increases the morons actually PAYING taxes will have to pay, had to pay even MORE to little old us?"
The obvious idiocy here leaps off the page. Even if such a tax actually DID pass, first, it would only be the start... and second, at a whole one percent of $500,000 per year, the amount of money raised would be insignificant in a budget controlled by people who spend money like addicts smoke crack.
This kind of class warfare garbage is NEVER appropriate, but it is particularly idiotic in the midst of a crushing recession. When Sen. Adam Klein says something whacked like "an income tax is absolutely necessary" what he's moronically saying in demogibberish speak is "if you make any money and you're thinking about moving here, either yourself or your business.... don't."
It seems to me that as a state, we need to ATTRACT major money here... not repel it. How an income tax on the upper few percent of income earners in this state, particularly given the relatively small amount of money that would raise, is all-too-typical of the shortsightedness exhibited by the democrat leadership of our state's government for the last several years.
The decision to sit on tax increases this year would have made the democrats invulnerable.
Now, they've just given in to the dark side, and they'll be serving up softballs for the GOP to beat them to death over.
It looks like 2010 will be 1994 all over again, because these clowns simply cannot help themselves.
WA Senate Democrats introduce income tax bill
Wednesday, April 1 7:15 p.m.
BY RACHEL LA CORTE - ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
State Senate Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday that would impose a 1 percent income tax on people making more than $500,000 a year.
The bill sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, comes shortly after Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, D-Spokane, began pondering the possibility of a state income tax on her blog.
On Tuesday, Brown noted that New York is considering a similar measure. Brown wrote that New York's income tax plan would be "a fair and stable way" of dealing with that state's declining revenue. Brown's staff, however, said the timing of the bill and Brown's postings were just a coincidence.
Kohl-Welles has introduced an income tax plan in prior legislative sessions, but the bill has never moved far.
Washington is one of only a handful of states without a state income tax.
In 1932, Washington voters approved an initiative establishing a personal income tax, but that was later struck down by the state Supreme Court. Since then voters have rejected state income tax proposals; the most recent one, in 1973, was defeated by 77 percent of voters.
Kohl-Welles was not available for comment Wednesday, and Brown did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
One of the income tax bill's co-sponsors, Sen. Adam Kline, D-Seattle, said he thinks some form of income tax is "absolutely necessary." But he also characterized the new bill as a conversation starter.
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