Lars Larson: Northwest Income Tax and Denied Public Vote

This opinion column was written by Lars Larsen

with the Northwest nonsense.

Well, citizens in the Northwest

just got another big fat middle finger

from another Democrat.

Washington's Secretary of State, Steve Hobbs,

just refused to let the public vote

on the illegal and unconstitutional income tax

just passed by lawmakers.

Get this.

Hobbs claims that voters are forbidden

to have any say on billions in new taxes

if state lawmakers simply declare it necessary.

Reminder, Washington's state budget spending

has increased 116% in the last 10 years.

Show of hands, folks.

How many of you have paychecks

that more than doubled in the last decade?

That's precisely what I thought.

Oregon Democrats follow the same playbook.

Jam through a huge tax to feed the insatiable appetite

of the government, mostly for salaries of workers

whose unions feed the campaign war chests of Democrats.

If that sounds like a giant cash laundromat,

that's exactly what it is.

Then once the tax is passed,

do everything possible to deny citizens

the right to vote on any of it.

And then for the cherry on top,

invite Democrat politicians in both states

to stand up and loudly proclaim

your defending democracy by denying democracy.