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@loganb And really.. Fergusson is right there.

Was just listening to a podcast slamming Hochul as “the worst democratic governor,” but idk, putting her face on environmental law reform is pretty brave.

@LurkerBored @BobFergusonGov WA’s constitution requires that all taxes be applied proportionately and has ruled against income taxes previously. This is basically corrupt, authoritarian, undemocratic strong arm left wing Trumpism.

@LurkerBored @BobFergusonGov It’s war on tech and basically deferred comp. It only applies as written over $1 mill, but the sponsor.. whose company has $40 million in contracts, (many sole source), has said in email that if the do this they can apply an income tax on a majority vote.

This is an exceedingly well written piece @BobFergusonGov . Don’t sign this undemocratic, unrepresentative, piece of unconstitutional law.

@BobFergusonGov, veto it, force the Legislature back to the drawing board, and demand real tax reform that reduces regressivity by cutting sales and B&O taxes instead of layering new levies on top. Do the right thing now, before Washington’s taxpayers stage a modern-day Boston Harbor in the shadow of Mount Rainier. chronline.com/stories/commen…

@LurkerBored @BobFergusonGov What’s worse is that they structured it as an “emergency provision”, which bars voters from being able to overturn it in a referendum at the ballot box (where they know it would fail).

@LurkerBored @BobFergusonGov The State Senate Majority Leader is a connected attorney who worked at the same law firm as the governor and a Supreme Court justice just appointed by the governor who will rule on this. All while voters have recently and previously rejected it ELEVEN TIMES.

We can't have two economically illiterate parties, it's like having two fun parents, we're all gonna starve to death.

@TVietor08 Tommy. They were building them. They have said it candidly in interviews. Why are you doing this?

Netanyahu is such a despicable liar: - Ali Khamenei had issued a fatwa against developing nuclear weapons. Now his younger, more extreme son is in charge and is MORE likely to seek a nuke - US intelligence said the soonest Iran could get an ICBM that could hit the US was 2035

Trump approval is now below where he was in his first term. But views of Dems are worse than they were in 2018; definite need to try to come up with ways to do a "new look." natesilver.net/p/trump-approv…

Democrats have STILL not reckoned with how much people hate progressive ideology

Audible gasps from the crowd at Sen. Adam Schiff’s Hollywood hearing when he says that from 2022 to 2024 L.A. County lost 42,000 motion picture industry jobs.

Andrew Yang says Democrats' proposed "wealth tax" (i.e. asset confiscation) is a "disaster," then praises alternative policies like Trump Accounts that incentivize the rich to give to the needy without government bureaucrats getting in the way "Wealth taxes are a disaster, because wealth is portable." "I joke with people. It's like, guys, you cannot think that rich people are rancid assholes but that they'll stick around if you decide to hike taxes. Those two things don't exist in conjunction." "I loved what Michael Dell and Ray Dalio and his wife did with the Trump Accounts, where it's like, super wealthy people -- if you take the government out as a middleman -- will they give billions of dollars to poor kids? Apparently, yeah. They're more interested in that than giving it to the government, who they think is going to end up wasting a certain percent of it." "It's like, 'If I can just give it straight to the kids and I know it's getting to the kids, I am down.' And that should be the vision, is you go around to people and be like, 'Look, I get it. You don't trust the government to do it right, to administer it. They're going to hire a bunch of people, bloat, all sorts of weirdness. Let's just get it straight to the poor kids.' And then you could go to Americans and be like, 'See, look, there's like a real effort.'"

@JimWalshLD19 Passing the tax, he said, would give the Washington Supreme Court “the opportunity to revisit its bad decisions from 1934 and 1951” and “make it possible, if we succeed, to enact a progressive income tax with a simple majority vote.” 2/2

@JimWalshLD19 In April 2018, State Senator Jamie Pedersen described the strategy with unusual candor. In an email, he wrote that the capital gains tax carried “the more important benefit” of creating an opportunity on “the legal side.” 1/

More early weekend reading. The WA Democrats' whole state income tax scheme is one big lie.

@bonchieredstate Paxton is a Kari Lake. If he were to pull it off it would be because of that. He’s still not going to pull it off.

This is a Talarico internal. He's not winning. I don't care how bad of a candidate you think Paxton is.

@OhCryMeARiver @WAPolicyGreen @GovBobFerguson What? Voters rejected an income tax at the ballot box RECENTLY. Aside from that, this is effectively a hike on lower income taxpayers if even a few Shultzes leave given the portion of state receipts they pay.

@engele @WAPolicyGreen @GovBobFerguson Neither did the millionaire tax😂😂😂😂 yet here we are with you crying online

A Washington state senator claimed that after Massachusetts passed its income tax, there was no harm. That is clearly false. @GovBobFerguson can still do the right thing and veto the income tax and prevent this damage. #waleg

I refuse to believe that Texans would elect such a transparently phony individual.

When you've even got The Seattle Times calling you out, you know maybe you've truly gone too far... seattletimes.com/opinion/editor…