It’s almost the end of the session, and here’s what our Majority DemocRats are planning to unleash on the Public, who have continually expressed their opposition to every single one of these bills.
What a lopsided session so far in Washington state…
Majority Democrats are full speed ahead on passing the most unpopular bill in state history, while also in the process of repealing their death tax because it is driving people out of WA.
Majority Democrats have officially ended the effort to protect children from fentanyl, for the 4th year in a row.
Majority Democrats have ended any chance of reigning in fraud.
Majority Democrats are attempting to kill the initiative process because they keep getting pushback from Washingtonians.
Majority Democrats are on their way to ending elected sheriffs.
Majority Democrats are pushing to release violent criminals from prison early.
Majority Democrats are moving forward with essentially banning 3D printing.
Majority Democrats tried to ban tires here (yes, really).
Majority Democrats are going to allow Dow Constantine to take out 75 year bonds to pay for Sound Transit’s $35 BILLION budget deficit.
Majority Democrats tried to ban retired Federal Law Enforcement officers from working in WA state.
Did we miss anything?
The Constitution of the State of Washington expressly forbids an income tax which treats different classes of citizens differently. Since the Seattle Income Tax for large businesses was approved by the all-far-Left Supreme Court, the legislature knows that anything they pass, however unconstitutional, will be approved. The bill that will pass states that the “Millionaires Tax” will only apply to residents making over $1,000,000 per year; however, legislators themselves state that it is designed to soon cover all taxpayers in the state. Income taxes NEVER stay at the same low rate. Once enacted, they always encompass more citizens at increasing rates, in perpetuity. Since there is zero chance the composition of the state legislature will become less Leftist, they can just go ahead and pass as many taxes and increases as they want. Our Republican Party here is completely ineffective, so they might as well not exist.
Many, many citizens see what is happening here, and are already making plans to leave the state. They are tired of the State forcing sexually explicit materials and lessons on their kids, and the skyrocketing cost of living. Our own property tax bill arrived today, and it is about 14% higher than last year. We are both retired, living on a mostly-fixed income, and this increase does not help us. We know that it will keep increasing, as our legislature adds more taxes and increases existing ones.
Harger: Grocery prices in WA are already painful, but new legislative proposals could make them even worse
Grocery prices are getting ridiculous.
You don’t need a chart to tell you that. You just need to stand at the checkout line and watch the total climb while you’re thinking, wait, how did we spend two hundred bucks? We didn’t even buy steak.
And groceries hit differently than other inflation. You can put off buying a new TV. You can wait on a vacation. You can skip Amazon for a month. But you can’t skip dinner. Everyone needs to eat.
That’s why a letter I got last week from the Northwest Grocery Retail Association caught my attention.
Their message to Olympia is simple: Please stop piling on new costs.
They say the legislature is considering a whole stack of bills that would increase the cost of operating grocery stores in Washington. A bottle deposit system. A moratorium on electronic shelf labels. Packaging mandates. Publicly owned grocery stores. More fees and penalties around closures and vacancies. A statewide tax on sugary beverages. Even possible excise tax increases on items that are sitting on grocery shelves. A statewide payroll tax. Expanding local B&O taxes.
Now, take any one of these ideas by itself, and I can see why someone would like it. Some of them might even be good policy. I’m not here to say every proposal is terrible. I’m saying the pile is getting tall.
Because grocery stores don’t work like Boeing or Microsoft. They operate on razor-thin margins. When their costs go up, they don’t have room to absorb it. They’ve got two options. Raise prices or stop offering the service.
And the letter from the association puts a number on it. They claimed one grocery retailer is looking at up to $39 million dollars in new state and local taxes in 2026. Thirty-nine million.
Where do we think that comes from?
It doesn’t come from a magic corporate vault. It comes from your wallet. From the family buying cereal, diapers, and chicken thighs, trying to stretch it to payday.
We keep saying we care about affordability. Olympia is full of speeches about helping working people. But if you make it more expensive to operate a grocery store, groceries get more expensive.
And this is where I try to be fair. Some of these bills are aimed at real problems. Environmental waste is real. Health care costs are real. Worker protections are real. I’m not dismissing any of that.
But we don’t get to pretend there are no trade-offs.
You can’t pile on mandates, taxes, and compliance costs, then act surprised when the price of food goes up again. You can’t say you’re fighting for working families while quietly making the most basic necessity of life — food — more expensive.
The grocery association is asking lawmakers to pause. Not to stop caring about the environment or workers. Just to look at the cumulative impact of all these bills together.
If lawmakers want to help working families, here’s a simple test for every new proposal.
Before you vote on it, ask yourself: What does this do to the price of groceries? Because people are already doing that math at home, and a lot of them are coming up short.
The above quote comes from KIRO’s Charlie Harger, on MyNorthwest.com. To the legislature in Olympia, the people of Washington State are just their piggy-bank, to extort money from, to do myriad social experiments on vulnerable children and adults; pay for their boondoggle “light rail”, and tax away as much of our earnings as they can. Since the Left has NO limiting principle, what they steal from us has NO upper limit. Margaret Thatcher once said that the problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. Washington DemocRats are doing their level best.
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