Washington's new gas tax kicks off July 1st
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Did the state's population double since 2013? No. HH wrong again.
Over the past ten years, Washington state's budget has seen significant growth. In 2013, when Jay Inslee became governor, the state's annual operating budget was approximately $38.4 billion. By 2025, the state is now spending almost twice as much annually, with a budget of around $75.5 billion.
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/washington-state-wants-to-increase-bureaucrats-salaries-by-13-billion-despite-claims-the-state-is-facing-a-budget-shortfall
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He doesn't have a move other than vague, indirect potshots. He'll move onto another thread to espouse some inane legal position as a gotcha
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H in every thread
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I’m hearing that increasing gas taxes do….something
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Nobody is denying that real spending has increased. Still, you've got a state that has grown by about a third during the 21st Century and cumulative inflation over that time. The state has added popular capital improvements that you also have to operate and maintain. Mandates, particularly in education, which were severely underfunded for quite a while. Etc.
If Washingtonians aspired to make the state like Arkansas, Mississippi, or Louisiana, they'd vote accordingly. They haven't shown that they aspire to that.
Meanwhile, because we've got a retarded tax structure, we're making Race pay more than he should. Still, he remains here.
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Gibberish
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pithy
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The population growth has been pretty stagnant since about 2000. You can go ahead and defend the spending increases on the merits of the spending programs if you want, but it’s a losing argument looking at the high level macro stuff.
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If by "stagnant" you mean Washington's growth has vastly exceeded the growth of the US as a whole, then you're right.
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State opex spending per citizen has increased by 72% since 2013. Core CPI index has increased 36% during that same period. So including population gains, spending has significantly outpaced inflation.
Laughable argument to justify the spending on inflation and population growth.
