Washington Democrats LAUGH At Voters After Passing Illegal Income Tax

Inside these chamber doors, my colleagues and I at King 5 got a front row seat to what may

have been the lengthiest house floor debate ever inside the Capitol.

63 46 as amended by the House is declared passed.

Celebrations erupted for the millionaires tax on Democrats side of the aisle.

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson says he will sign a bill to impose the state's first ever

income tax. So it is official in the Washington State House, Washington State Democrats have

decided that they are going to ignore the constitution of that particular state and impose the

first ever income tax in the history of the state on its citizens again without a constitutional

amendment. Now of course the way that they're selling this is the way that they sold the original

federal income tax, which is just attacks on the millionaires, just attacks on the wealthiest

of individuals. It's not going to affect your regular ordinary everyday people, but the fact

of the matter is, just as we saw with the federal income tax, which was only promised to be

one to two percent on the top one to two percent, this is setting the stage for Washingtonians

to pay massive amounts of their money in state income taxes, which they were free of for the

length of the history of that particular state. It is an absolute disaster in every possible way,

and of course it is pitched as a way to solve the budget problems of Washington State,

but as documented on this channel and by many of people who have looked at the books,

the state of Washington faces a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and this tax again is just

the beginning in imposing a state income tax and make no mistake about it. Democrats have already

made it clear that that is their intention. Critics including Republican lawmakers Chris Gildon

and Travis Couture believe the millionaires tax is a disingenuous way of paving the path for

an income tax and everyone, not just the wealthy. If you want to be serious about fixing regressivity

in our state, you need to talk about reducing the tax burden on the poor and the middle class.

When pressed on whether they would ever support a universal income tax down the road,

top budget leaders, Democrats Tim Ormsby and June Robinson did not give a definitive answer

today. By the way, in addition to that, you also already have the wealthy people, the people who

supposedly won't relocate to avoid taxation, actually leaving the state, Howard Schultz,

a staple in the state of Washington and in the city of Seattle, who already relocated his Starbucks

company headquarters from Seattle, Washington to Nashville, Tennessee has announced that he himself

is moving to the state of Florida and this is due to the fact that they are imposing this ridiculous

tax and this is what we're going to talk about today. But before we do, I want to thank everybody

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This has been a lot of work that's gone into this tax reform and we think it's going to really

pay dividends for Washingtonians. Democrats say the money will expand the working family's tax credit

and fund things like childcare, healthcare and education during debate. Supporters said the

ask is simple. We are asking the 21,000 wealthiest Washingtonians, that's a quarter of 1% of Washingtonians.

We're doing the very best financially of any of us who currently pay far less to support our

shared needs than the poorest among us do to chip in. So of course the Democrats in the Washington

State House are pitching this the way that they sell everything, which is this is going to fund

very important things that we absolutely need. That's going to help the innocent beba angel poor

people within that state. And of course they pitch childcare funding, which we all know or at least

you should know that Washington state right behind the state of Minnesota has the most amount of

Somali daycare centers in their particular state. So that's going to be absolutely wonderful that

your tax dollars are going to be funneled more towards them because we all know that those daycare

centers need to pay for the children that aren't present there. But in addition to that, we talk

about education funding and all the other things that Democrats often list off as absolute

necessities for the state. Now, of course, I said earlier on that the issue in Washington state

happens to be that they have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. And of course this is

supported by the data. So when you look at the actual spending in the state, what you find out is

that in fiscal year 2012, they actually had a total budgeted expenditures worth about 30 billion

dollars by fiscal year 2019, that number had reached 50 billion dollars. And by fiscal year

2025, we have preliminary actual spending in and around at 95 billion dollars, which means that

spending has over tripled in just a little bit more than a decade. Now look, in raw numbers,

the spending has tripled in a little bit over a decade. But obviously we have inflation as a

factor. And of course, the state of Washington has population growth. And that state has actually

seen about a 50% increase in population. And of course, you have inflation as a factor.

So what we find out is that spending has actually doubled when you actually adjust for inflation

and population in the state of Washington, which again does not make any sense because you should

be matching your population. You should be matching inflation at the bare minimum. But obviously,

they are going significantly over that thus making this a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

Now we actually talked about this proposal for a state income tax in the state of Washington,

which they're pitching as just a millionaires tax. Nothing to see here, nothing to worry about,

earlier on about a couple of months ago on this channel. And what we found out is that when

Democratic representatives who were behind this tax increase were pressed, they actually just admitted

that they would consider applying this to everyone. And essentially, this is the camel's nose

under the tent legislation in order to justify the ridiculous spending that they want to perpetuate.

And again, run up the taxation on these particular residents. Bill imposes an income tax on the people

of Washington state for the first time in over a century. Opponents say they fear the tax could

eventually reach more than just millionaires. Others argued an income tax on one population of

earners is unconstitutional. It has to be applied evenly. See, and that's where I think that the

courts are going to come in. So here we have a representative that that's explaining that according

to Washington state law, these types of taxes are not only unconstitutional, but if you were to

impose taxes, they're supposed to be imposed on an even basis across the board with only minor

exceptions. And obviously, this is not being done in that way. And the reason for this to be

highlighted is absolutely crucial because these are challenges that are going to be brought up to

the courts if this were to pass the Senate. And of course, be signed by the governor who by the way

has already indicated that he will, in fact, sign this income tax, which makes sense because this

is the guy that is approving the budgets with all the frivolous spending. So obviously, you're going

to head for disaster in the state of Washington. And of course, this is already reflected by people

relocating, even though this tax is not supposed to be implemented until 2029. So let me give you a

little bit of a prediction about what is going to happen. You're going to have all these people

that are going to say, Oh, well, we're going to actually not have to worry about anybody relocating.

It's going to be no big deal. But then when they do leave when revenue projections don't meet the

excessive spending of that particular state, they will use that as a justification to lower the

threshold from income over a million dollars to income over $500,000, then income over $100,000.

And so on and so forth until you have a state income tax that absolutely everyone pays. Again,

this is something that we see in New York City, which is one of the few cities in this country

that has a city income tax. We also have a state income tax. By the way, we also have sales taxes

because you get all of the taxes. You don't trade one for another again, unless you prohibit one

by the Constitution. So what you end up doing is eventually you get to the point where income

between zero and $12,000 is still subject to this oppressive taxation because this is the

ultimate goal. Again, when you give them an income tax, it's not like that covers the debt and

that covers the deficit and it's no big deal. They use that as a justification to spend significantly

more, which is why the city of Chicago's budget, which is the third largest city in the country,

which is the third of the size of the city of New York spends 10 times less than the city of New

York because Chicago, even though it's being run by Democrats, doesn't have their own city income

tax system in the way that New York City has. Again, look at all the states with the most financial

trouble and what you find out is that they happen to be the highest tax states, not the lowest

tax states. You look at the ones that have balanced budgets or even surpluses like the state of Florida

or the state of Texas and what you ultimately end up discovering is that those particular states

have no income tax at all whatsoever. So it's a spending problem, not a revenue problem,

yet they're using their excessive spending as a justification to tax the crap out of you.

Now look, based on the previous video announcing this particular tax plan, it looks like this is

going to have to be done via a constitutional amendment via a ballot initiative. And if you're

in the state of Washington, it is absolutely crucial that you vote against it, but the thing is when

you've had such a massive increase in population, a bunch of left-wing people move into your state

to the point where they're essentially doubling your population over the last so many years,

these people are not connected to how your state functions. They're likely going to vote to make it

more like California, which is where many of these people are fleeing from. And when they do that

and they impose the income tax, you are all going to suffer as a consequence of it because it's

damn near impossible to get politicians to lower taxes or get rid of a revenue stream once they

have it, which is why it's absolutely crucial that you prohibit this at a constitutional level

and you keep that prohibition. Again, we saw this in the state of Massachusetts where they had

a flat tax by law, according to the Constitution, they decided to have voters vote to actually institute

different tax brackets. And now all of a sudden, even though they say the millionaires taxes

absolutely working out for that state, what are they doing? They're now pushing the same exact

taxes on the middle class, like the fuel surcharge tax, that they said that they were only going to put

into place if you didn't vote for the taxes on the rich, because guess what? Once they get that one

thing approved, they then go down the list and try to grab all the other things. This is exactly

what's happening in New York City. They're talking about how oh mom donning needs the taxes on the

rich, but he's using that as an opportunity, even though again, he created the budget deficit

with $14 billion in new spending while trying to blame Eric Adams for it as an excuse to raise

taxes on property, to raise taxes through parking meters, and basically hit people with all these

fines and fees and everything that regular ordinary people play, because again, it is all a part

of their scam. And if you're in the state of Washington, don't fall for it, but you know what?

Who knows how it's going to work out? We will have to see if the Senate even passes this.

And of course, the governor has promised to sign this, so again, we may be on the cusp of an

unconstitutional disaster in that particular state, but you know what? Those are just my thoughts.

I want to know what you guys think down in the comments below. As per usual, if you like this video

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