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They promised to make life affordable.
They created an income tax.
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“The era of assuming unrealistic revenue growth is over. I will not sign a budget that requires unrealistic revenue growth to balance.”
– Governor Ferguson’s own inaugural address (Jan. 15, 2025)
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He then signed an $80 billion budget built on income tax revenue that doesn’t take effect until 2029.
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“We don’t have an income problem; we have a spending problem. I left office with a $33 billion budget. Today it’s $80 billion.”
– Former Gov. Christine Gregoire (D)
They designed this income tax to expand to everyone.
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Sen. Pedersen coordinated with the AG’s office behind closed doors to force the Supreme Court to reverse income tax precedent.
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Not a single legislator who supported the income tax voted for an amendment to lock the income threshold at $1 million.
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Polling: 58% of voters believe this tax will expand to cover them; that number rises to 68% among high-awareness voters.
They have made promises before, and they keep breaking them.
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Sen. Jamie Pedersen promised to ban an income tax, then joked one year later that was a “pie crust promise…easily made, easily broken”
Repealing the income tax does not cut any benefits for working families, those programs are preserved in writing.
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The initiative text explicitly protects: the Working Families Tax Credit, B&O small-business relief, hygiene product exemptions, diaper exemptions, and OTC drug exemptions.
Past Washington leaders are sounding the alarm.
“We don’t have an income problem, we have a spending problem.”
– Former Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) AWB Summit, May 14, 2026
– Former Gov. Gary Locke (D) raising serious concerns about long-term funding accountability and how the revenue will actually be spent.
