The right to reproductive care is already enshrined in WA state law

https://doh.wa.gov/you-and-your-family/sexual-and-reproductive-health/abortion/know-your-rights

So what exactly more can the legislature do? This editorial basically boils down to a call to masssively raise taxes even though the authors can’t be bothered to provide a purpose other than paying a “fair share”. If progressives do decide to go down that road they might not like where it leads.

I would like to see a move away from regressive taxes - this would demonstrate progressive taxes aren’t simply a ploy for more revenue in and of itself. Propose a sales taxes decrease to go hand in hand with whatever progressive tax has the best chance of passing. Without a plan to decrease regressive taxes, I can’t buy the sincerity of folks who complain (rightly) of our upside down taxation.

Even the Democrats have gotten the message. The public is sick and damn tired of activist politics and they want their state and local governments to work closely with the Trump administration. The Resist movement has gone and died. It's time to Make Washington Great Again.

@1 "What exactly more can the legislature do?" OMG, where do I start.

@1, 2 I agree that any major tax reform should include a meaningful sales tax reduction. Not including it in the 2010 initiative was a big mistake. But one way or another we are going to have to seriously beef up revenue at the state and local level if we want to keep providing basic health care, housing assistance and education to those whom the federal government under Trump is almost surely going to take it away from. And I think most of us in this state, no matter how they voted in the presidential race, want to do that (or at least can be made to understand why it's in their own best interest that we do).

"Washington had
the smallest shift to Trump
in the country in the 2024 election."

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2024/11/27/washington-presidential-election-republican-shift

but HOW can That even BE?

all our clamoring for
smokin' Joe and Kamala
to END THE WAR ON GAZANS*

was what ELECTED Thedonolde
in the First Place! -- according to
tS's Far 'right' Commentariat and End-
lessly pummelled uopn this commentariat

since October 7th of two
thousand fucking twenty three.

so:
Wot
gives?

*and to knock it Off with
all the corporate
capitulations

'The public
is sick and damn
tired of activist politics'

--@welcometournewfascism,fuckers

that's too bad
cuz they're about to
get more Activism than
they'd ever dreamed Possible

look for
Thedonolde
to Expel the entire
Left Coast* from Cabo San
Lucas to the North Fucking Pole

*the
Cascades (et al)
being our Eastern Border

What is Sarah Dixit worried about? No man would ever even think about impregnating her, no matter how hard up he is for cooch.

"These wins give progressives the best opportunity in decades to pass bold progressive policies these next four years..." The authors appear to believe they were all progressive wins supportive of progressive policies, but even a cursory look at the candidates show that these were mainstream democrats not "progressives".

Buddhamat @ #2 - I had exactly this conversation with the person charged by WA DEMS with making it happen when I was a PCO in the 37th ... 20 years ago. I was told that we need both sales and income taxes, and that suggesting "either or" was a path to failure.

20 years on and the same politically losing arguments continue to be made.

@6 -- When you fell out of the basket of deplorables, did you get an owie? Is that why you're misogyny is spiking?

Also, I think I just set a new speed record scrolling past kristofarian's comments. Whoosh!

@8 -- *your (ugh)