Most populist POTUS ever
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So just trading one tax for another ... what's the point?
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Not trading one tax for another.
Eliminating subjective valuation and tax on unrealized “gains”
Also returning taxation to local jurisdiction to be determined by the consent of those taxed/governed for the purpose the governed deem a priorityIf the locality wishes to tax its occupants via levy, so be it. If they want to base it on income, ok. If they want to apply excise or sales tax based on consumption, that’s fine. But the method by which infrastructure and services are funded is not controlled by far off bureaucrats and politicians.
Cities would be allowed to compete on a level playing field. Spokane wouldn’t be shackled by Olympia’s fuckery and could align their two policy to compete against Boise, for example.Competition would ultimately drive down costs across the nation and globally.
Bottom up re-engineering of the state and federal tax suck. Fuck them both.
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bicycle registrations should pay for bike lanes
I want to pay for parks, schools, police, and fire.
public transportation should be self sufficient.
It should not cost 140b to run this state annually. That is absurd.
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Preach.
Cut all the free shit. Bus tickets for the homeless bums - one time offer to pay for the ticket home then the free shit stops.
Local funding of schools which could include vouchers. Competition.
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Total state spending was 16.5B in 2005.
Bob Ferguson just signed the largest tax increase in history to fund 80b in expenditures in 2025.That is completely indefensible.
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Why not just send the bums to California?
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Things I get to "vote" for generally include parks, libraries, zoos, schools. Things that generally the population supports. Things I don't get to vote for are almost everything else. Portland Metro voted down a major MAX line extension years ago. The politicians then voted to build it anyway.
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Look we all want parks, bridges, roads, police, schools, and fire trucks and we are willing to put up with the usual fraud and abuse between Olympia and contractors to have the infrastructure in place and maintained.
I can tell you what we don’t all want are gigantic add on projects like light rail that do not service the population as a whole because that is where the REAL grift happens. Why the fuck is someone in Wenatchee paying for a fucking train that runs from SeaTac to Redmond? What we don’t want is billions lit on fire to make homelessness, drug addiction and crime WORSE. What we don’t want are taxes going to initiatives that do NOTHING for the people whom the governors office targets in paying them.
We ran this state extremely well back in 2004ish for under 20b with a population of 6.1M
Twenty years later you’re telling me we need 4x that with 7.9M? Get the fuck out of here. There is no reasonable explanation for that.
Think of it this way. The total population of WA state is 7.9M and the state budget is 79B. That dollar spend per inhabitant is fucking outrageous.
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Both Oregon and Washington in the last few years had a huge increase in "education" funding. Washington due to a Washington Supreme Court case and in Oregon a defacto sales tax passed dedicated to add billions to education funding which we were promised was going to be targeted and watched over by our elite education bureacracy. Results? Dropping test scores, money put in a pile and burned and now both states screaming about education budget deficits and that the kiddies are suffering. In Oregon full time equivalent spending per public school student is equivalent to the private school funding for the Catholic Jesuit High School is southwest Portland metro area. The cost for a teacher at Jesuit is slightly less than a public school teacher. But the private schools don't have the huge administrative costs of the public school system and have the ability to require discipline in the school system. It's not the lack of spending that is the question.
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”Education funding”
Right. As public school enrollment shrinks. Jefferson high in Portland is getting a 750M “renovation” this summer.
Total enrollment is 780 kids(60% drop from twenty years ago) and the total incoming freshman class is less than100. If ever there was a project that demanded a full audit and investigation.
But it’s Multnomah County so that money gets spent like shit through goose.
