TAXES: Capital gains are profit, not income
Re: “Baird’s naive about tax rates” (letter, 2-4). The writer sees capital gains as income, but they are actually profit. Yes, some people invest using ordinary income received as wages, which they...
View ArticleTAXES: Baird’s right on taxing capital gains
Re: “Baird’s naive about tax rates” (letter, 2-4). The one who “is naive or deliberately misleading” is the letter writer, not Katie Baird (column, 2-1). What he fails to understand, or purposely...
View ArticleECONOMY: Revisit how we fund state needs
Education excellence and public safety must be at the top of our list as a state if we wish to compete not only with other states but also within an increasingly globalized world economy. Firing...
View ArticleTAXES: Higher gas tax hurts poor the most
Re: “Roads proposal would add dime to gas tax” (TNT, 2-21). Washington needs a state income tax. We are already the state with the most regressive tax structure – that is the poor and working class are...
View ArticleINCOME TAX: Pro and con of the 16th Amendment
Pro: Scandals overtaking the IRS are an indication of an out-of-control bureaucracy. The founders believed that levying direct taxes would be a threat to liberty. They therefore strictly limited such...
View ArticleBUDGET: Republicans incapable of state business
So we are within days of a possible state shutdown because the policies of the Republican Party are so disgusting that the Legislature is blocked. They refuse to generate the reasonable revenue to run...
View ArticleTAXES: Lower sales tax and tax income
I think we need to get rid of the sales tax or at least lower it below 5 percent, including all the various county add-on sales tax. Replace it with a state income tax. Taxes must be raised, not only...
View ArticleTAXES: Money state gets isn’t spent correctly
Re: “Lower the sales tax and institute an income tax” (letter, 3-8). The writer must not be aware of how our state government works. If the state were to ever institute an income tax, it would not...
View ArticleTAXES: State needs more progressive tax system
Re: “Districts chafe at Inslee’s pay increases” (TNT, 2-23). I am in total agreement that the state should fully fund education. I am a retired teacher and a signature gatherer for Initiative 1351,...
View ArticleBUDGET: Why target poor and middle class?
Re: “Inslee expected to sign $38.2B budget” (TNT, 7-1). What’s this? We’re solving our state’s economic crisis on the backs of the poor, middle class and workers again. Why is it always the easy...
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