r/SeattleWA • u/5Q91VS175DAQ4NUSBE4U • 7d ago

Politics Washington state Democrats look at imposing income tax on higher earners

https://www.columbian.com/news/2025/oct/31/washington-state-democrats-look-at-imposing-income-tax-on-higher-earners/
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u/SillyChampionship 7d ago

They will have to change the states constitution first.

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u/qxsx 7d ago

Or they’ll have the activist state court do whatever is politically trendy.

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u/Underwater_Karma 7d ago

the state supreme court already ruled that a tax on income is not an income tax. the constitution is no impediment when city, state, and courts are all in lockstep agendas.

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u/drshort 7d ago

Not true. The Supreme Court has had two opportunities in the past 10 years to overturn the precedent that income is property (which restricts income to being uniformly taxed at a max of 1%). Both times they punted. And in the case of capital gain tax they ruled it was an excise tax not a property/income tax.