Eyman’s initiative factory is no longer merely idle, it has completely crumbled to the ground. So, instead of pitching bad right wing stuff, Eyman is busy trying to get Republican PCOs and other right wing activists to oppose legislation they don’t like in Olympia.
Tag: Strong Commonwealth
Posted inLegislative Advocacy
Voters in Washington State strongly support taxing extreme wealth, NPI poll confirms
67% of 874 likely voters surveyed by Public Policy Polling in March 2023 for NPI said they supported levying a one percent wealth tax on Washington residents whose worldwide wealth exceeds a quarter billion dollars, to benefit the state’s essential public services, while only 28% were opposed and 5% were not sure.
Posted inLitigation
Whichever way the Supreme Court decides the Quinn case, it will be making public policy
Read NPI alum Patrick Stickney’s assessment of the oral argument in Quinn et al v. State of Washington et al, the right wing legal challenge to Washington State’s new capital gains tax on the wealthy.
Posted inLitigation
Impressions from today’s oral arguments in right wing’s capital gains tax legal challenge
Here’s what it was like to be in the courtroom for oral arguments in Quinn et al v. State of Washington et al, the right wing legal challenge to the constitutionality of our recently enacted capital gains tax on the wealthy.
Posted inLegislative Advocacy
McCarthy’s uneasy majority tries to give rich tax cheats a gift as its first legislative act
“Only this extreme Republican majority would use its first bill of the 118th Congress to embolden tax cheats and cut services for working Americans: For decades, Republicans have been cutting necessary resources from the IRS,” Representative Suzan DelBene, D‑Washington, a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement.
Posted inLitigation
Washington State Supreme Court rules capital gains tax on wealthy can be collected for now
The ruling, requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson, frees the Department of Revenue (DOR) to proceed with collecting the new capital gains tax, which is a crucial new funding source for education, preschool, and early learning.
Posted inLegislative Advocacy
Schumer, Manchin announce agreement on major climate and health focused budget bill
“This is the action the American people have been waiting for,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “This addresses the problems of today – high health care costs and overall inflation – as well as investments in our energy security for the future.”
Posted inLegislative Advocacy
Washingtonians remain supportive of a capital gains tax on the wealthy, despite right wing efforts to overturn ESSB 5096
56% of 1,039 Washington voters interviewed from June 1st-2nd, 2022 expressed support for levying a capital gains tax on the wealthy after hearing a selection of arguments for and against it, while 37% expressed opposition. 7% were not sure.
Posted inLitigation
Quinn plaintiffs obtain ruling striking down Washington’s capital gains tax on the wealthy
A Douglas County Superior Court judge has ruled that ESSB 5096 isn’t constitutional. That decision will be appealed to the Washington State Supreme Court. In the meantime, some on the right wing are clamoring for an initiative to overturn Washington’s new state capital gains tax in the court of public opinion… but NPI’s polling suggests voters wouldn’t be receptive.
Posted inLegislative Advocacy
NPI to Legislature: Washington State should levy a wealth tax on billionaire fortunes
Read NPI’s founder’s prepared testimony in support of raising funding for Washington’s essential public services by requiring billionaires to step up and invest in the state’s future.
Posted inLitigation
Lawsuits challenging Washington’s new state capital gains tax on the wealthy seek to re-rig our tax code in favor of the rich — indefinitely
Read NPI alum Patrick Stickney’s assessment of the legal challenge to ESSB 5096, the most important tax reform legislation passed in decades, which is being contested in court in a pair of cases known as Quinn et al v. State of Washington et al.
Posted inPolicy Topics
House of Representatives approves historic Build Back Better Act, sending it to the Senate
At 6:44 AM Pacific on November 19th, 2021, by a vote of 220–213, the House adopted H.R. 5376, known as the Build Back Better Act, after Biden’s campaign slogan, with all but one Democrat in favor and all Republicans opposed.
Posted inElections
Here’s what Washington voters said last spring when asked a neutral question about our new state capital gains tax on the wealthy
Tim Eyman claims that voter responses to his propaganda pieces demonstrate that voters don’t like Senate Bill 5096. But our polling, conducted according to the scientific method, shows the opposite.
Posted inPolicy Topics
NPI’s July 2021 survey of Seattle voters found deep support for JumpStart revenue plan
67% of Seattle voters support Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda’s JumpStart revenue ordinance, with 27% opposed and 6% not sure. That’s a margin of well over two-to-one.