All day, every day now, more and more information comes to light regarding what our “elected” officials are raining down on the law-abiding, tax-paying citizens of Washington State. They are getting us coming and going, literally. Washington State has one of the only Death Taxes in America, and it is the highest of any state. If you are unlucky enough to have a multi-million-dollar estate when you die, the State has decided that it will confiscate 35% of the amount over $3,000,000. Taken together, my husband’s and my assets are over that threshold today, mostly in retirement accounts. No way does the State deserve ANY of that money. The estate tax covers ALL estates, including family-owned businesses and farms. No one is out of reach of our Leftist State.
Here are some ways our state is fighting its citizens.
The high Seattle minimum wage got her business. Just wait until the new income tax takes effect.
Hey WA,
the legislator just effectively banned all 3d printers by requiring them to have “shape identifying algorithms” to keep people from making gun parts…
These people are tech illiterates and tyrants.
This algorithm doesn’t exist and would be useless.
You can always just print half of an object like a lower receiver for an AR-15 and then join the two halves.
You can break shapes into slices.
It would be like trying to ban someone from printing words by keeping the printer from printing the shape of the letter A.
You c@nnot stop the sign@l.
Making your own firearm has been legal since the founding and is 100% protected by the 2A.
Making the digital files for gun parts illegal also violates the 1A.
Democrats are so desperate to strip Americans of their 2A rights they are willing to stomp on your 1A rights to do it as well as ban everyone in the state from buying and enjoying a 3d printer.
Yeah, the Dems in our legislature are incredibly stupid in trying to stop 3D printing of gun parts, the law essentially outlaws 3D printers. Morons. Oh, and like the income tax, the bill has an EMERGENCY clause! The emergency is that there is still a modicum of individual liberty here. That cannot be allowed by the Tyrannical Left that runs this state.
This is the gas price at our local Costco. Lowest anywhere!
And at the Chevron just down the street…
Income Tax for All. The fact that WA has no income tax has been a magnet for businesses for a century. That’s gone now, and businesses are already leaving.
Daycare fraud here too, with our huge Somali population robbing us blind.
Throwing away our tax dollars with both hands. Shoes for Prison Inmates??!!
The reason many Seattleites live there is because of its widespread single-family zoning. That will be going away soon. They already passed the “homeless camps for every neighborhood” law.
Now that your neighbors are apartments, your prosecutor or firefighter might be a foreign national. Non-citizens prosecuting Citizens. I wonder how that will work out?
Yeah, those moron legislators and governor really think they can force FEDERAL ICE agents to remove their masks!!!
The absolute NERVE!! Bare faces for thee, but not for me and my security detail!
Voter fraud in Washington? No! Never!! Says Senator Halitosis! But…
And King County wants to add ANOTHER Sales Tax “for roads”!! It’s never enough, ever.
Of course, they never will.
So what are the overburdened taxpayers doing about it?
Another Initiative that, even if it passes, the legislature can neuter it in two years.
The Dems cheated so the previous initiative did not pass. There has been NO beneficial effect of the Climate Commitment Act for ordinary citizens, just skyrocketing energy prices for all. Oh, and some VERY wealthy “green lobby” cronies of the politicians.
Oh yeah, then there’s the land-grab by Sovereign Indian Tribes! The State wants to give the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge away to a “foreign” entity!
Here’s our Legislature:
This pervert is a homosexual with male children in his home.
How much more can our taxpayers take? Our big issue is people not voting. If every single Republican and Independent turned out to vote for Republican candidates every time, we could break the Dem stranglehold on our state.
But wait! There’s MORE!!
How about a new “Workers Bill Of Rights” law just passed by our clueless legislature. With one seemingly innocuous law, they may just have outlawed babysitting, lawn-mowing, and other odd jobs you hire neighborhood kids for. This article appears at MyNorthwest.com, copied here in its entirety for your reading horror.
Washington Governor Bob Ferguson recently signed House Bill 2355, known as the workers’ bill of rights. Jake Skorheim and Spike O’Neill, co-hosts of “The Jake and Spike Show,” both found the bill’s language to be confusing and sought help on a clearer definition.
Elizabeth New of the Washington Policy Center joined the show to provide clarity on the bill that even she viewed as “super confusing” and may have people “freaked out.” “It’s super confusing, House Bill 2355 is super fuzzy,” New said. “The exemptions within it for people who they’re not talking about, which they call casual workers, aren’t super clear. So that butts up against the framework that says a domestic worker, who you hire to do odd jobs or jobs regularly, is four hours a month or more. So, for most neighborhood kids, who are hired maybe one week for a yard, a couple of times babysitting a month could get you over this threshold.”
“Just really putting people in confusion about what an employment situation is and what casual labor is,” she continued. “I think they wrote it big on purpose, you’re not going to know whether you’re employing someone or not employing someone as a domestic worker, until someone complains and tries to either file a complaint with L&I or pursue a private right of action. That’s the fear that this is going to eliminate these informal, voluntary arrangements, because people are too freaked out to have them.”Jake noted that under the new bill, he would be hesitant to hire a babysitter because he felt that he may now be responsible for vacation time, sick leave, and several other things a regular employer must worry about. New wholly agreed that the entire process under the new bill would not be worth the time.
“That’s what scared me when I was reading this the most,” New said. “Everyone agrees that domestic workers who are nannies in your home or doing a lot of housework for you, those kinds of things, they’re hired, and they need to be treated fairly. They need to be compensated, and they need to understand when they’re not going to be working for you anymore.”
“This bill would require those upfront clarifications to those people to be in a written agreement that tells them their schedules, their pay, what’s expected, how long they’re expected, and then you’re required to give a termination notice to these people as well,” she explained. “What we’re afraid of is that it was written so loosely with this four-hour standard that we live in a litigation land. Let’s say a child that you hired down the street talks to a lawyer and wants to now complain about the work they were hired for. It’s just not going to be worth it for a lot of people to go this route.”
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