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OLYMPIA–The State Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Chris Quinn v. State of Washington on Thursday, January 26, the case challenging the constitutionality of the state's new income tax on capital gains falsely labeled as an "excise tax." Washington Policy Center's President and CEO, Mike Gallagher was there alongside Jason Mercier, WPC Center for Government Reform Director as well as WPC Treasurer Nathan Rimmer and WPC Chair Kevin Bouchey. Justices aggressively questioned what actually t...
Many people struggle to file their income taxes. They sort through a maze of paperwork and rules, try to find the documents they need to fill in the forms and schedules, and a grueling, confusing, or impossible process. Many give up and spend hours of their take-home money to pay a firm to do the whole thing for them. Despite all that, it could be worse. Washington state could get an income tax. Then you’d be adding state paperwork to the federal paperwork. For the past 90 years, ten times in a...
Washington Policy Center and three other prominent groups call on Governor Inslee to veto a series of bills mandating public employees attend "Critical Race Theory" sessions. The message was delivered via an open letter sent to the governor and published in newspapers statewide including The Seattle Times, The Everett Herald, The Bellingham Herald, The Spokesman-Review, the Tri-City Herald, The Yakima Herald Republic, and The Columbian. Washington Policy Center (WPC) was joined by other...