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the only poll that mattered was the one conducted in november - and the majority didn't fucking show up, did they?

the washington state legislature doesn't do shit about shit. they don't run this state - governor eyman does.
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Sadly, Max is right.

Governor Eyman runs this state.
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What you said wasn't especially surprising, I think some commenters just got annoyed by you taking such a tone. Ah, well.
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With all due respect Eli... and I have plenty of respect for you and gratitude for your efforts (and success!) at fixing the Supreme Court of WA... but:

There is a difference between raising/lowering taxes and introducing a new tax altogether. As much as I agree with the initiative to create an income tax for "the rich" I also understand the fear of those who think it's just another tax that will be added to existing taxes (despite the promise to change them) and that will ultimately be applied to them as well.
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@1 I'm pretty sure the top 1% or earners will always be considered the rich. Let's just tax those guys.
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Yes, most Americans believe that we should tax the rich as opposed to reducing social services that both protect the poor as well as benefit everyone. However, after millions of dollars are spent on campaign ads, many Americans vote for Republicans who want to gut social services and decrease taxes on the wealthy.

If you polled most Washingtonians, they would also favor raising taxes on the rich. But, after millions are spent on campaign ads, they vote against 1098, which would have done just that.

Until we can somehow get rid of millions of dollars being spent on campaigns, we are fucked.

America has become a nation solely for the rich and for corporations.

America is dead.
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beat.dead.horse
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Can we do that compromise thing everyone else is creaming in their pants about? Raise the rate to 1 million, fight some more, raise it to 50 million, increase the tax a little, give 75 million, then tax the mother fucking rich. Should there be a small business that complains about having to give a little bit more of a shit about the country they claim to call home when we're in the middle of a billion wars, the worst recession ever and their business is booming through the roof, they'll suck it up they have millions of dollars (while Mr. 250k a year doesn't).

No one wants to pay for the government they want, just let the government default on it's loans and try over again, ya'll talk about revolution this and that all the time anyway, this shit is getting boring. The whole fiat currency controlled by private companies and overspent by bribed politicians doesn't work for the good of human kind. They've beaten us at the game they created, and they're destroying the planet faster than we can vote. Democracy was always a thin illusion, it's a free market.
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Eli... does this mean I can accuse Meinert of being a "way outside the mainstream chewer of sour I-892 grapes?"
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Or option C) Tax the rich & stone the bankers.
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If the income tax proposal was matched by a dollar-for-dollar reduction in the sales tax, I think Washington would pass it. The two have to be linked from the start, you can't add one tax and say we'll get around to reducing the other when we have a chance. No one believes it will happen.
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jesus dude, you link yourself so much you're gonna go blind.
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@13:
Ain't it the truth???

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