The Olympian: Washington state needs tax reform

“I read with interest another commentary about an income tax being proposed in Olympia and why that shouldn’t happen. I imagine it means nothing to the writer that the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington, D.C., finds our state tax system the most regressive in the nation. We have the lowest paid teachers in the Northwest; we rank 47th in the nation in terms of class size.”

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