Your Just Not Doin' Your Job, Jay!


 Source: ShiftWA.org

The Inslee Administration is failing dramatically to reach its goal of contacting 90% of the state’s coronavirus cases within 24 hours to collect “contact tracing” data to slow the spread of the coronavirus.  If fact, Inslee’s team is missing its goal by a whopping 84%!  In the Washington State Department of Health’s latest report, it was revealed that the state had managed to reach only 6% of the newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, and the numbers keep getting worse.  It is because the state has failed to obtain the necessary information as to where people are contracting (and spreading) the coronavirus that caused Governor Inslee to see fit to impose his latest restrictions on retailers, restaurants and bars (without any supporting data that they were the cause for the spike in the number of new COVID-19 cases). Thus, the governor is using a one-size-fits-all approach of punishing employers and small businesses for the disease spread, because state workers (who have not lost any wages during the pandemic and nearly all received a pay raise last summer) have failed to collect the necessary data to identify outbreaks. (Washington Policy Center and Shift)

As Shift mentioned yesterday in our “Overheard on the Internets” section, Senate Republican Leader Mark Schoesler (R – Ritzville) has announced he will step down from his leadership position, which he has held for eight years.  The Republican Senate Caucus will elect a new leader later this week during organizational meetings.  In the Democrat caucus, the members have decided to punish Senator Mark Mullet (D – Issaquah) for defeating a pro-income tax challenger who was heavily financed by the state employee unions (which are often Democrat legislative candidates largest contributor) and endorsed by pro-income tax Governor Inslee. The caucus removed Mullet from his Majority Whip position and demoted him to the newly created meaningless position of “Leadership Liaison to the Business Community.” (The Olympian)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I Am the Tax Man, Ooo, Ooo Tax Man

Image
Source: ShiftWA.org A new report from the Washington Policy Center exposes a significant contradiction from a major promotor (and likely benefactor) of the Democrats’ Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) proposal.    Tim Zenk, a high-priced Washington State lobbyist for the Norwegian company Naste (which will financially benefit from the higher energy costs Jay Inslee wants to impose on Washington residents) testified at a state House hearing that California has lower gas prices now than when it passed its LCFS in 2011 (the truth is prices are higher).  Despite facts not being on Zenk’s side in WA, it also appears clear that his employer knows the truth about a cost-raising LCFS. After all, Naste representatives told California regulators not to impose a cap on how high an LCFS could increase fuel costs, and allow gas prices to continue to climb (and make it profitable for them to develop more expensive energy sources). Thus, while talking to Washington State lawmakers, Naste’...
Read more

The Left in WA Are Committing Skullduggery on Control and Taxes!

Image
  Source:  ShiftWA.org The local media has blindly accepted the Democrat legislators’ spin of calling its capital gains tax an “excise tax,” and not identifying it as an “income tax” as the IRS, 49 other states, and the rest of mankind do.  The Democrats know this is a particularly important distinction, since an “income tax” is unconstitutional in Washington State and an “excise tax” is not.  The legislation ( SB 5096 ) was sneaked through the Senate , by a single vote, in a rare Saturday session, and will likely sail through the Democrat-controlled House.  Just as certain as Governor Jay Inslee signing any bill that raises taxes, there will certainly be a lawsuit which will eventually require the Washington State Supreme Court to rule on whether or not Inslee’s income tax on capital gains is an unconstitutional income tax.  By the local media choosing to ignore the IRS, 49 other states, and common sense that this is an “income tax” and choosing instead to...
Read more

The Outcome of the Lack of Accountability

Image
  Source: ShiftWA.org Governor Inslee constantly makes elusive and factually incorrect statements, and the local media fails to uphold its responsibility to point them out to the public (and to Inslee).    Consider a few of Governor Zero’s whoppers: his defense for having Washington State taxpayers fund security for his failed presidential campaign; him claiming ignorance of the forceful takeover of six city blocks (and a Seattle police precinct) by protestors; to his stubborn refusal to call a much needed (and legally required) special legislative session. In each of these instances – and many more – the Washington State media fails to hold the governor accountable for his misleading comments. Since there are no consequences for providing evasive responses and fabricating false scenarios to legitimate questions and concerns, Inslee will continue to make them. As a result, the public is not served, and our democracy suffers. ( Shift Article ) Governor Inslee announced the...
Read more