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Stalking the elusive state-tax dollar
03.12.2009 | Crosscut | They say that when God closes a door, he opens a window. Some people certainly hope that Washington’s current budget crisis, which seems to have slammed so many doors, has pried open the long-stuck window through which an income tax could slip into this state. At the very least, the budget crisis has forced key legislators to talk seriously about a tax increase.
State needs a 'high incomes' tax
03.10.2009 | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | We have the most regressive tax regime in the country. Middle-class and low-income families pay much more in taxes proportionally than the wealthy. Absent an income tax, our over-reliance on the sales tax and property tax also results in insufficient public revenues to fund the public services, especially education, that 21st century Washington citizens deserve and demand. Full Story »
Recent Commentary
Time to stop the wobbling and truly reform health care
06.24.2009 | John Burbank | The health care debate is heating up, for good reason. In our state, the number of uninsured has spiked to almost 900,000 people. One out of five adults between 19 and 64 has no health coverage. Meanwhile, businesses which offer health coverage are facing another round of escalating health care costs. Just this month Premera Blue Cross is increased its individual rates by over six percent. Hope lies in the push by President Obama for universal coverage - but it won’t be easy.
Full Column | Seattle Post-Globe »
Path to health is best taken on two wheels
06.10.2009 | John Burbank | Last Sunday my wife and three friends and I decided to bicycle up to Snohomish from Seattle. We came back along the Snohomish River, appreciating the farms and forests along the way (and, incidentally, the growth management act that prevents unmitigated sprawl) until we had to make the long slog up the Woodinville-Duvall Road back toward Seattle. We went longer than we had planned, and ended up good and tired for the evening. But what could be a better thing to do on a beautiful June Sunday?
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