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Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Homestead Exemption hearing tomorrow

We've been spending a lot of time talking about HB 1744 - an act providing property tax relief, and for good reason. Tax reform is one the main goals of NPI's Permanent Defense, and it's something worth fighting for.

Washington's tax structure, as the Seattle P-I noted last year in its editorial endorsing the homestead exemption, is depolorably regressive. HB 1744 doesn't solve all of our state's problems, but it does begin to tackle a couple of them.

The hearing on HB 1744 is tomorrow, Wednesday, February 16th, at 1:30 PM in the State Capitol's John O'Brien Building, House Hearing Room C.

NPI will be there, and we encourage you to be there too.


Also check out TaxSanity.org, which has put the Frequently Asked Questions you may have seen before at Permanent Defense's Homestead Exemption Center up on its main page, with some updated information.

David Goldstein has also weighed in at HorsesAss.org with his arguments on why Washingtonians should support the Homestead Exemption.

Use this form, provided by Permanent Defense, to help lobby the members of the House Finance Committee to urge them to pass the homestead exemption.

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