The Herald: State relies on an unfair, insufficient tax system

“Last year, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan and nonprofit research group, said Washington state had the nation’s most unfair state and local tax system, leading its list of the “Terrible Ten Most Regressive.” The state’s poorest 20 percent pay 16.8 percent of their income as taxes, while the middle 60 percent pay 10 percent of income as tax. Those in the top 1 percent pay only 2.4 percent of their income as tax.”

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