Shock of Shocks - Gov. Zero Does Something Right!


Source: ShiftWA.org

Hey – he did something right! Governor Inslee has finally delayed the ban on plastic bags which his fellow liberal Democrats jammed through at the end of the 2020 legislative session.  The ban, which will likely increase water and air pollution, was to begin  on January 1, and would caused even more strain for businesses already hampered by Governor Inslee’s emergency order restrictions.  Last March, many policy makers pointed out the obvious health and business concerns in imposing the ban at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.  They encouraged the governor to veto the bill, but Inslee refused to listen to anybody who challenged his “green” thinking, and instead sided with the environmental special interest groups (which have supplied him with plenty of campaign cash over the years).  The governor’s latest order delays the ban until February 1st (as if 31 days is all that is needed for the ban to make any sense, or to resolve the many problems the ban will create). (OPB/AP and Washington Policy Center)

The Washington Policy Center’s Jason Mercier again proves his well-researched claim that Governor Inslee’s proposal for an income tax on capital gains is unconstitutional.  The Kitsap Sun carried a Mercier op-ed pointing out that  a state income tax is unconstitutional in Washington, and the IRS and all other 49 states categorizes a capital gains tax as an income tax.  Also, every state which does have a capital gains tax does not consider it a reliable source of revenue.  Mercier’s research of publicly disclosed records also turned up the Democrats’ goal behind the current capital gains tax legislation “is to set up a lawsuit in hopes of imposing a graduated income tax without a constitutional amendment.” A constitutional amendment would require the vote of the public, which has previously defeated 10 income tax proposals. Winning a lawsuit only takes convincing 5 of the 9 liberal State Supreme Court justices to ignore existing law to advance their political agenda. (Kitsap Sun)

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