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Article: INCOME TAX IS NEEDED, PANEL TELLS LEGISLATURE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- December 4, 2002
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Byline: ANGELA GALLOWAY AND PAUL NYHAN P-I reporters
OLYMPIA -- A high-profile committee set up by the Legislature called on politicians yesterday to impose a state income tax and to reduce sales and property taxes, condemning the state's current tax structure as unfair and regressive.
The recommendations of the committee, headed by Bill Gates, the father of Microsoft Corp.'s co-founder, were hardly a surprise. In fact, analysts have concluded that the state's tax structure is unfair to poor people for decades, and politicians have responded with ill-fated income tax proposals.
Yesterday's report is also unlikely to lead to any substantial ...