Gov. Bob Ferguson said earlier this month that he wouldn’t sign a budget that relied on a large, “untested” new wealth tax.

Moving away from a politically unpopular tax on the state's richest people, lawmakers float a different way to balance the ...

Olympia Democrats want to compound the damage from tariffs.

To fend off WA taxes on businesses and personal wealth, Microsoft has spearheaded a lobbying campaign and pledged $1 million ...

Washington state Democrats have so thoroughly mismanaged the state’s budget that they are now planning to jack up taxes by $12 billion over the next few years.

Olympia Democrats want to compound the damage from tariffs.

Sen. Chris Gildon, the upper chamber’s Republican budget lead, has been adamant that the budget can be balanced without ...

Discover the alternatives Washington Democrats propose after ditching the wealth tax meant to boost the state's budget.

There's been a lot of talk lately about taxing the wealthiest Americans more to bring more equity to the tax system in the U.S. and to raise additional revenue. The current administration ...

Majority Democrats in both chambers of the Washington State Legislature strongly hinted that a “wealth tax” proposal is dead this session. During a Wednesday media availability event, Senate Majority ...

The wealth tax, in our view, would cause people to leave the state. It would undermine entrepreneurship. It would discourage people from starting new companies in Washington state, it would be bad ...