When lawmakers come back to Olympia next January, they’ll face an estimated $3 billion revenue shortfall thanks to the ongoing recession/weak recovery – and that’s on the heels of about $5.2 billion in cuts over the past three years. So how will this year’s ballot measures impact the budget? The Washington Budget and Policy Center [...]
Calculate vote with our kids in equation
October 27, 2010 By 6 Comments
From the Everett Herald: When I think about our future, I think about Mikey, Liana, David, Sean and Stephanie. They are among the high school students I coach in cross country at Ballard High School. They are not the fastest kids. They couldn’t even run around Green Lake last summer. But now they are completing [...]
Why Washington voters should approve Initiative 1098
October 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
From the Washington Business Magazine: By Don Barbieri and Marilyn Watkins Initiative 1098 provides the right reform mix to create a brighter future for Washington: new investments in education and health care, tax cuts for small businesses and property owners and a modest new tax for the most fortunate. Main Street businesses struggling to survive [...]
Dire claims made to defeat Initiative 1098 don’t stand up to scrutiny
October 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
Two recent pieces of economic analysis are putting the lie to some of the dire claims made by opponents of Initiative 1098. First, Mike Kimmel at Presimetrics runs the numbers and determines there is “a clear positive correlation between the top marginal tax rate and the growth in real GDP per capita over the next [...]
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