On 1-8-24, the Seattle Times penned an article of: "From a state clam to car tab discounts, lawmakers’ agenda takes shape" and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:
The actual news is that the state is financially flush with money right now and the host of proposed bills does nothing but propose more use of those excess funds. Meanwhile, there are left over Sur taxes still in effect that have created that money flush. Like that extra tax on alcohol sales, (over and above the regular sales tax), that remains in place.
Then legislators decided to add the state's sales tax to your electrical utility bill each month and that remains in place even though, (while exempting our sales tax for necessary food), you can't very well survive without electricity. And not only that, but there is something called a "State Privilege Tax" of 2.14% on my monthly electric bill and I've no clue what that's about?
And probably, there isn't enough space or interest to cover all the other extraordinary taxes created by our legislators that were used to by-pass the state's designated revenue source, our State Sales Tax. You see Legislators don't want to touch that albatross. By talk of raising the rate of Sales tax they commit political suicide, right? So, they continue to nickel and dime us via the Sur tax route. And don't think that isn't a bi-partisan action.
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