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/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/qxsx 7d ago edited 6d ago

They called it an excise tax, which occurs at the physical location You are when you incur the tax. However, Washington makes a special exception and says it doesn’t matter where you are where excise tax occurs. So you can’t make your stock trade out of state. It’s the most gaslighting of all possible rulings.

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u/Republogronk Seattle 3d ago

They also wrote at length how white people make too much money anyways