It often seems that the citizens of Washington State can’t seem to catch a break. The fight against the looming Income Tax continues, and the ordinary people can seem like they are sleeping through the whole thing. Let’s Go Washington, the citizen group fighting the income tax, and struggling to pass all three of their initiatives (repeal the income tax, reinstate Parental Rights, and protect girls’ sports); remains active and optimistic, appearing daily in different parts of the Northwest to connect with voters. That’s another problem: too many Washingtonians aren’t even registered to vote. Our voter turnout is abysmal, and can’t improve until people have a good reason to register, and vote. The state Republican Party is weak, and seems to have no idea how to get stronger. They still allow Democrats to run unopposed in many local and state elections, so Democrats just get stronger.
More and more adverse information about the Income Tax continues to be revealed. The worst one on my own plate is the fact that the Millionaires Tax WILL tax residents’ Social Security payments if they have enough other income. That makes things even more precarious for seniors who already can’t afford the rising sales and property taxes, and rates for home, auto, and health insurance. With the Feds stopping the Covid subsidies for Medicaid, the State has announced a 22% rate increase for Obamacare plans in the state, hitting small businesses hardest. Here are some comments and extra information.
UNAFFORDABILITY TO THE POINT OF ANNIHILATION WA State Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) Average 22.2% rate increase approved for Washington’s 2027 Exchange health insurance market Sept. 9, 2026 OLYMPIA, Wash. —
Thirteen health insurers have been approved to sell individual health plans in Washington’s Exchange in 2027. Insurance companies requested a 22.4% rate change, and 22.2% was found to be actuarially justified. Health insurers base their rate changes, in part, on what they expect to happen to their costs in the future — including how many people they expect to cover, their age and their health status, and how much they expect the costs of health care services to increase.
The uptick in 2027 is due mainly to an increase in the basic costs of health care and more robust health care needs among the people covered by individual health plans. The Insurance Commissioner is required by law to approve rate increases when insurance companies can prove the change is justified. “This is, unfortunately, a reflection of the increasing cost of care,” Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer said. “Families shouldn’t experience sticker shock every year when shopping for health insurance, but these pressures are likely to continue without changes that slow health care spending, improve affordability and keep more people covered.”
Kuderer’s actuarial staff identified four main factors driving the increase, based on companies’ rate filings: Healthcare organizations are charging more for services and prescription drugs. Members are using more healthcare services and shifting towards higher-cost services. People who have left, or are expected to leave, the market tend to be healthier than those who keep their coverage. This leads to higher average health care needs.
The expiration of the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits makes coverage less affordable, which prompts healthier people — those less likely to need health services — to drop their coverage. Losing these members raises the average costs of covering those who stay. The plans and their rates will be reviewed for certification by the Washington Health Benefit Exchange Board at its Thursday, Sept. 10 meeting. People who don’t receive health coverage through their employer shop for a health plan on the individual health insurance market. This also includes self-employed people and early retirees. Small businesses with fewer than 50 employees also rely on the Exchange to provide health coverage for their workers.
Fourteen insurers offered individual plans for 2026. Providence Health Plan, which covered 254 enrollees, will not offer coverage in 2027. Asuris Northwest Health, which requested a 14.9% increase, only offers its plans outside of the Exchange. Its rate has yet to be approved.
Nearly 250,000 Washington residents bought individual health plans through Washington’s Exchange, http://wahealthplanfinder.org, in 2026 — 13% fewer than a year before. It was the largest drop in enrollment since 2012, due in part to Congress’ failure to extend the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits late last year. Those credits had helped cut enrollees’ average annual premium costs by $1,330. Approved health insurance plans and rates for the 2027 Exchange market
And you need to know about all the extra costs involved in Washington State Medicaid, as they mandate coverage for:
OTC Birth Control with NO copay
Abortion drugs, and abortion services (paid by the State since it’s illegal for the Feds to fund abortion)
Pre-existing conditions
Vaccines
More has come out about how the State is increasing its taxpayer support of what it calls “immigrants,” but really what we know are Illegal Aliens. Citizens get short shrift while the state favors people who broke into our country and consume services very heavily.
FOLLOW THE MONEY –
@washdemsare CRIMINAL! WHITE PEOPLE LAST…. BETTER WAKE UP!!
Seattle’s immigrant office: $𝟭𝟬.𝟴𝟯 MILLION in 2026. Up 𝟳𝟬%. That’s the city nameplate. Catholic Community Services of Western Washington — same ecosystem, different scale:
$𝟯𝟭𝟳 MILLION total revenue (year ended 6/30/25) $𝟭𝟳𝟯M government grants (𝟱𝟰.𝟲%) $𝟭𝟯𝟭M program-service revenue (homecare / treatment billing sits in here — HCA stamp not pulled yet) $10M funds a city program. $317M runs the warehouse.
Don’t add them. Don’t confuse them. Both run on public dollars. Former DSHS secretary runs CCSWW.
Voters in WA state…listen carefully to Sen. Pedersen’s words. This is an income tax. On EVERYONE. They can call it a millionaire’s tax to appease their low information voter base, but it is an income tax on EVERYONE. It has a million dollar exemption for now. That will change. Let me repeat – THAT WILL CHANGE!
Until spending habits change in the Democrat-controlled legislature, there will never be enough $$ for them.
Put these vile politicians in their place. Vote YES on I-645. We as voters did not get a say in implementing a state-wide income tax. None. Last year we said NO to an income tax. Pedersen and company went behind our backs and implemented one any way.
This is your chance to push back on them.
Make your voice heard by voting YES!
And then vote these arrogant fools out of office!! They will not stop until they squeeze every last dime out of you.
Remember all the “Business and Tech Leaders” who called for the State to quit driving businesses away with their higher taxes and anti-business stance? So Ferguson threatened Microsoft with a Payroll Tax (like the Jump Start/Amazon Tax in Seattle on employee salaries over a certain number) that day. Well, Pedersen is already working on that.
This is an even more revealing video of
- the thuggishly little weak man making a direct threat to Microsoft and the citizens of WA
- Gregoire embracing and hugging the petty little tyrant
- Brad Smith’s bobble headed agreement with his captor
This new Gregoire/Smith PAC is doing absolutely nothing to improve the competitiveness of the state. The wheels of the bus we have all been thrown under are already on our backs.
Fight back
Vote Yes on I-645
Get your neighbor to vote and to Vote Yes
Warn your friends this income tax is coming for their retirement account
And as far as Hubby and I are concerned:
Social Security in WA State — now taxable, thank you Jamie
Did you know that under the new unconstitutional income tax in WA state there is no exemption for social security so your social security income and benefits (anything that is reported on your federal AGI) is now subject to taxation by the state?
There is not enough money in the world to satisfy the greedy spenders in Olympia or their public union sock puppet masters.
Vote Yes on I-645 to Repeal the Unconstitutional Income Tax
You know that Income Tax? More job losses are announced every day. The more jobs and taxpayers are lost, the heavier will be the burden on everyone who is left. Business taxes lost get applied to all citizens, since the Democrats who run Washington have no intention of changing their excessive spending patterns.
NEW: Washington’s labor market decreased by an estimated 9,000 jobs (seasonally adjusted) in August.
Though the unemployment rate decreased, for the second consecutive month, to 4.9%, it still remains more than a full percentage point above the national rate.
In August, private sector jobs collectively decreased by 9,000, while the public sector increased by an estimated 8,100 jobs.
From July to August, the number of people who were unemployed statewide decreased from 202,809 to 197,474.
In August, the state’s labor force was 4,043,691 – a decrease of 9,931 people from last August. In the Seattle/Bellevue/Everett region, the labor force decreased by 5,352 people during the same period.
Private sector employment decreased by 9,000 jobs from July 2026 to August 2026. Government employment increased by 8,100 during the same time.
The Seattle Times is in FAVOR of the coming income tax, even though members of their board will pay the tax from the very beginning.
On the DEI/Tribal Front:
THE MWANGO SISTERS??!!!
6 people killed by trigger pullers (DEI BLK Cops say), 4% blacks in WA State and all they could find is the 4% for Seahawks?
$2 billion in DEI FRAUD right now currently here. They have majority of State/County/gov’t jobs, cheated-in thru 85% USPS EI positions, every good job in WA State and ,,,,
Yes, they’re talented here, but let’s stop this crap and get some white folks back.
Look around, today I worked in 3 diff schools, only Principal’s and teachers were white.
So either someone is lying or 4% – 360,000 are mutating….. $244 million in FREE houses so far too. Millions stolen under program w/ ZERO OVERSIGHT. 🧵
Normally, any photo of a group of state, county, or city employees will have a liberal (no pun intended) sprinkling of black faces. Whites don’t get hired.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + WA State Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF)
Scoop: Equity Director quits Washington child welfare agency, alleging racial bias
Sept. 16, 2026
The equity director at Washington state’s child welfare agency resigned last week, citing “discriminatory and biased leadership” at the department.
The big picture: Washington’s Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) lists advancing racial equity as one of its top priorities. But the former director of the department’s equity office, Patricia Colemon, says the agency is failing to live up to that goal.
The department works with some of the state’s most vulnerable kids, including foster youth, low-income preschoolers and kids in the juvenile justice system.
State of play: Colemon served as the director of DCYF’s Office of Equity until Sept. 9, when she resigned after about nine months on the job.
Her resignation letter, which was reviewed by Axios, says she “personally witnessed” DCYF secretary Tana Senn “exhibit racist and discriminatory actions against Black women” on “more than one occasion.”
Five others who have worked with Senn at DCYF also told Axios they witnessed Senn hold employees of color to higher standards than white employees or otherwise treat them differently.
Those five current and former employees declined to be named, citing concerns about professional repercussions.
Senn, who has led DCYF since January 2025, said she was “disheartened by the accusations.”
“They are not a reflection of who I am or the person, beliefs, and record I’ve built over the course of my career in addressing racial equity and social justice,” Senn wrote in an email to Axios.
DCYF’s human resources department told Colemon it will “ensure a proper review is conducted” of the concerns Colemon raised in her resignation letter, according to an email reviewed by Axios.
Zoom in: In her resignation letter, Colemon accuses Senn of blocking Colemon from promoting a Black woman within the department to a deputy director position, after that person had already held a temporary leadership role for seven months.
When Colemon asked for an explanation, she said the department’s chief transformation officer, Jennifer McCoy, said some agency leaders perceived the employee as “unprofessional” — criticism Colemon said was unfounded and rooted in racial bias.
“This trite dog whistle has been used for generations to deny people of color promotion and position,” Colemon’s resignation letter reads. She noted that the employee had served as the interim director of the equity office and represented DCYF in work with the governor’s office.
McCoy told Axios the conversation was “completely taken out of context” and “reduced to one word to fuel these harmful implications.”“At no point were my words or actions rooted in racism,” McCoy wrote in an email to Axios.
Colemon said another employee who worked at DCYF for nearly 30 years — also a Black woman — was demoted this summer, leaving Colemon as the only Black woman at the agency’s roughly 20-person leadership table.Senn told Axios she couldn’t comment on specific personnel matters, but said all the personnel decisions she has made “have been based on the agency’s operational needs.”
Five people who have worked with Senn at DCYF also described what they viewed as a pattern of differential treatment by Senn. All described more than one type of conduct.
Four described Senn declining to hire or promote people of color.
Four described Senn as micromanaging women of color.
Three said they’d seen Senn discount the opinions of women of color.
Four described Senn removing women of color from their jobs abruptly but giving more transition time to male employees, most or all of whom were white.
Finally, back to the driving metropolis of Seattle. The Bite of Seattle shooter is still at large (why do I feel like the Saturday Night Live newscaster saying every time that “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.”?)
Seattle teachers are some of the HIGHEST PAID TEACHERS IN THE COUNTRY! But they, like most Leftists, are never satisfied, and are always saying they deserve more and more taxpayer money. Now that the state will pay strikers unemployment compensation, all union members feel safer threatening to strike, or actually doing it.
BANKRUPTING THE TAXPAYERS
Washington Education Association (WEA) Union
HEYDAY PAYDAY
Sept. 16, 2026
SEATTLE TEACHERS 🤡 just ratified contract.
Seattle Public School Board next.
- 9.8% raise over 3 years for teachers
- 10.55% for paraeducators and office staff
- Year One is 2.6% increase, then 4.1% increase, and then 3.1% increase.
Post by TurnSeattleRed + WATCH:
Lawbreakers coddled, not charged, NO consequences for the destruction of a million dollars in public property. Lawbreaking not punished leads to more and more crime. Good luck, Seattle.
Finally, one more interesting item about the Income Tax, and how the repeal Initiative 645 is portrayed/described in the Voters Pamphlet coming out soon.
Emphasizing the NO statement, so the YES statement may be less likely to be read. Also, it has already been shown the NO statement contains blatant lies.
Washington state voters are in for the fight of their lives this November. WAKE UP, WASHINGTON, AND VOTE OUT EVERY DEMOCRAT ON THE BALLOT! THEY WANT TO SEIZE EVERY DIME YOU MAKE OR HAVE!
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