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Gov. Inslee w/ Suzi LeVine - ESD Director

Source:  ShiftWA.org

Basic greed is complicating Democrat legislators’ efforts to impose more taxes on state employers.  Seattle lawmakers made other liberals jealous last year by imposing a job-killing employee tax on over 800 of its businesses (through its misnamed “JumpStart tax”)., Now, the Democrats convening in Olympia are trying to figure out how to impose a similar employee tax statewide, without diminishing the revenue being confiscated from the same sources by the City of Seattle.  Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda avariciously proclaims that if state Democrat lawmakers infringe on Seattle’s new tax revenue then it will need to “make sure that the city is kept whole” by kicking back to the far-Left Seattle city council any funds the state tax takes away from the city’s bounty.  Governor Jay Inslee and Democrat legislators continue to seek new taxes to increase state revenues (instead of just not spending as much money), despite having more money to spend in the next budget than in the current one. (Crosscut)

The Vancouver Columbian is calling for the dismissal of Governor Inslee’s incompetent Employment Security Department Commissioner Suzi LeVine.  The normally very liberal newspaper points out the many serious problems (such as allowing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to be stolen in one of the largest thefts in American history, failure to approve legitimate claims in a timely manner thus causing financial hardship for tens of thousands of Washington residents, informing benefit recipients that they must return funds months after they have spent them to pay bills, and now providing roadblocks to officials who are investigating the problems) and states Governor Inslee should listen to Republicans and remove LeVine from her position.  As the paper points out, “The state Employment Security Department is due for a shake-up. The top might be a good place to start.” Yet it is doubtful Inslee will listen to the Columbian’s concerns, as he must have some very important reasons to continue to stand by his appointment of LeVine, whose primary qualification for the job was that she has raised millions of dollars for Democrat politicians’ campaigns.  (Vancouver Columbian)

 

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