Taxing your property and reducing your right to vote

Taxing your property

SB 5486, Wealth & property tax is the camel's nose under the tent, the foot in the door, the hand in your pocket....   The Left's proposed wealth tax is a prelude to a general property tax on everything anyone owns.  

Taxing property is specifically allowed by Washington state constitution, but this is an abuse.   The state's constitution specifies "All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of property within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax and shall be levied and collected for public purposes only." Washington constitution Article VII, § 1 (Amendment 14)

Impolite is always against new taxation.  Governments almost always make things worse, because governments can only apply compulsion to a situation when ingenuity is required.

Your input is solicited.  Take your pick:

• I would like to testify in person during the hearing
• I would like to testify remotely
• I would like my position noted for the legislative record - Just state you're pro/con
• I would like to submit written testimony

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Reducing your right to vote

SB 5082 is deceptively titled "Encouraging electoral participation and making ballots more meaningful by abolishing advisory votes."  Advisory votes give the people more information about how the legislature spends our money, and gives us a chance to organizer a voice against waste.  No wonder the elitist Left wants to squelch it.

What's bad is this has already passed out of the Senate on a party line vote (It was is heavily favored by the Democrats).  We are trying to catch it before the House passes it to governor Inslee.

Take your stand.  Select any the following:

• I would like to testify in person during the hearing
• I would like to testify remotely
• I would like my position noted for the legislative record - Just state you're pro/con
• I would like to submit written testimony

Impolite is for democracy, which is the voice of the People.  The more informed we are, and the more we can vote on public matters, the stronger our democracy will be.  

What has gone wrong with the Democratic Party that they would favor SB 5082?