OK, so what if "just this once" we let this one little regressive tax increase pass. Because, geez, the state is broke and we've just got to fund all this stuff. And it's only a teeny tiny percentage added to sales taxes, right?

OK, fine, what happens next year?

Next time there is a budget crisis -- and every budget is a crisis, isn't it? -- can we finally draw the line and say no more regressive taxes? Can we say this one will be the last time we ask the poor to fix the budget?

Oh, wait. We did already say that last time we raised sales taxes, didn't we? Are we allowed to keep doing it?

Initiative No. 1107 - Repeals new taxes on bottled water, soda and candy. Definitions are truly odd (Twix is not defined as a candy because it has a flour based biscuit in it.) Every tax increase just keeps the legislature from facing the hard decisions on spending. Vote YES

http://soundpolitics.com/archives/014302…

Beats me.

I just tossed the fake mailer I got from them in the recycle bin, like all the other ones.

But they tax chili - CHILI, PEOPLE. Those ads told me so. And only IN-STATE CHILI. It's an evil tax that will prevent us from feeding our children healthy food. What's the problem with corn sugar, anyway??!!! It's made from CORN. This is a BAD TAX that will hurt AMERICAN FARMERS, who are AMERICAN.

Why on Earth are they showing it during the Daily Show? Isn't that like preaching to the choir?

Suckers. It's really about soda but you think it's about chili? It's like their $14 million advertising campaign is working.

The definition of candy is a mutli-state definition. Used by multiple states. To define candy. The tax is already in place and I bet you didn't even notice it.

This is about Big Soda not wanting to be the next Big Tobacco.

So make your commercial and vote NO on 1107.

http://www.itepnet.org/whopays3.pdf

The link is to a study about taxes paid by various income groups around the country. Washington State is the MOST regressive in the nation.

Get rid of sales tax and start expecting the rich to pay their fair share fer crissake.

If there were an initiative to lower prices at farmers' markets and increase prices at gas stations and bodegas, I'd vote for it. Unfortunately, this only accomplishes ONE of those things, so I don't know if I can really get excited about it.

I was in LA not that long ago and I could actually afford to buy produce at a farmers' market. Man, that was a fucking trip. Then I came home and went to the Ballard market and remembered, "Oh yeah. I'm poor as fuck. Never mind, guess I'll go back to eating frozen bullshit from Safeway." Fuck.

Man, Do you think people like Nancy Guppy just HATE Joel McHale for making it?

This sounds fun but they are cutting it close to election with about 3 weeks left to go. Should have started this challenge last month.

Oh, and these ads need to air during wheel of fortune and jeopardy all the time every day not just on one day. Of course the No campaign can't afford it but still.

@11 no, she's pretty cool with that.

At least the last time we talked.