STATE GOVERNMENT
Sign petition for state tax system that’s fair, stable, accountable
Please sign this petition is you agree that it’s time for Washington to replace its archaic revenue system — the least fair in the nation — with a fair, accountable and shared tax system producing stable and sufficient revenues.
For more information, watch this video by Rep. Reuven Carlyle (D-Seattle), Chairman of the House Finance Committee. He outlines Washington’s broken and regressive tax structure; explains how the state’s high reliance on a sales tax has placed an unfair tax burden on its poorest residents, average earners and the state’s small businesses (while letting major industries and international corporations off the hook); and demonstrates how in the past 20 years Washington dropped from 11th to 35th in terms of the combined level of state and local taxes per $1,000 of earnings.