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Article: Breaking Down the Budget -- An Income Tax? -- No One Seems Enthused by Idea of State Income Tax
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- January 2, 2003
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EDITOR'SNOTE: The last in a series of stories breaking down the
major spending and taxes in state government. Today: Income Tax.
By PAUL QUEARY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA - Not too many people remember that the citizens of
Washington once overwhelmingly voted for an income tax. The year was
1932, and the state's farmers were plumb fed up with a system that
raised most of state government's money through property taxes.
So they banded with other disgruntled landowners and pushed
through an initiative imposing a graduated income tax, much like the
federal income tax, that would have taxed the wealthy more than the
poor. It passed with 70 percent of the vote.
But if there's anything in ...