Sign up to stop new taxes - its easy to do

We can stop new taxes If we let them know we are aware of their plans.  Bright light frightens politicians.

Inslee promised he is willing to sign more new taxes into law --  this is really stupid given that our state economy is staggering under the COVID pandemic -- if he and his cronies can do it in a dark corner. 

Fortunately, we  have Initiative 960 — that’s been protecting taxpayers since voters passed it in 2007. It forces the state budget office to track tax-raising bills, calculate their costs, and alert the public by email about their introduction, hearings, and legislative votes.  And the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of legislators sponsoring and voting for those tax-bills are listed on each email notice.

To make Initiative 960 work for us, sign up to get notice of tax proposals at Govdelivery  https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAGOV/subscriber/new and set up your account -- its no charge to you.

Just take the email notifications, even if you don't have time to read them all.  Money eating politicians are like cockroaches -- they fear the bright light of Initiative 960.  It makes them reluctant to impose more bad taxes.

Of course it works even better if you tell the politicians about how you feel about being taxed to death.

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Testimonial to Initiative  960's effectiveness.

“It is getting in the way of open consideration of ideas,” said Rep. Maralyn Chase, D-Shoreline, who sponsored a bill that would tax greenhouse gas emissions (the bill would cost entities that extract or import things such as coal, petroleum and natural gas more than $26 billion over 10 years)."

“It is getting in the way of taking care of the business of our state.  You would not believe the vitriol that has come in on my telephone today,” said Chase, who added lawmakers will be reluctant to have their names associated with any bill that would trigger I-960 notification.