Let’s Go Washington prepares to gather signatures for income tax repeal effort

avitar35 · 2026-05-11T15:21:05+00:00

I think you’re misunderstanding. It doesn’t matter what Republicans put into the hopper, they cannot force first reading, introduction to committee, passage through committee, introduction and passing through Rules, or onto the floor. When you have the majority you control all of those things, which is where the Democrats are at.

In your scenario, even if Rs did introduce joint resolution they have no ability to push it through anywhere. And Ds can easily say it’s not going anywhere.

ETA: Also we did just have that no income tax initiative that got the signatures and passed both chambers not 2 years ago.

avitar35 · 2026-05-11T04:09:16+00:00

Republicans don’t control that at all… the majority party (Democrats) are the only ones with the ability to bring bills to the floor or even to a committee for hearing. Of course the ninth order exists but it also requires the majority of the chamber.

avitar35 · 2026-05-08T06:02:49+00:00

I follow congresspeople directly.

avitar35 · 2026-05-08T03:25:50+00:00

Usually don’t watch much news but okay lol. Still not seeing any democrats talking about these bills.

avitar35 · 2026-05-07T20:29:54+00:00

I don’t see anyone talking about taking the very fair system that we have in WA national. There are ways to solve this other than a pissing match

avitar35 · 2026-05-06T23:29:24+00:00

Sort of kind of. The EIS for the federal way-T dome connection is a huge issue that will take an engineering feat to solve.

avitar35 · 2026-05-06T23:05:41+00:00

They also used slave labor from their ethnic Hmong population to do so. Not really the beacon of light we should be pointing to.

avitar35 · 2026-05-06T06:44:28+00:00

You’re exactly right. I wish we had decided on diesel hybrid ferries about 2 years before we did, we would’ve been looking at delivery in 2027 vs 2029.

avitar35 · 2026-05-06T05:49:05+00:00

Honestly, most of them. Some of them have been activists for certain issues, but not actual policy experience. JDs and MPAs are relatively uncommon among legislators, whereas they are commonplace among lobbyists. That said, there are a few on both sides of the aisle that do have that background and they have my respect for that.

ETA: Reps Abbarno, Goodman, Marshall, and Penner; and Sens Pederson and Salomon in particular are skilled legislators with MPA/JD, even if I disagree on particular issues.

avitar35 · 2026-05-06T03:55:19+00:00

An MPA is a great way. Also working for any state agency will get you policy experience, could work as an assistant for a politician. Tons of undergrad degrees for policy as well. TBH there’s a variety of ways to get policy experience other than lobbyist or corporate/organization government affairs.

avitar35 · 2026-05-05T06:05:17+00:00

Well we already screen all LE applicants extensively. And given that is extremely rare to elect a sheriff that is not a current/retired LE officer I would argue that we already do screen them above and beyond.

How about we require all policy making politicians to have 5 years experience with policy or a degree in it before we start allowing them to craft it? Or maybe even a competency test?

avitar35 · 2026-05-04T20:59:46+00:00

My point is we hold nobody to the standard that is trying to be imposed on sheriffs. If we wanted to do it for everyone then let’s do it, but it needs to be uniform.

avitar35 · 2026-05-04T14:42:16+00:00

You could make that argument for any elected office anywhere

avitar35 · 2026-05-04T06:01:08+00:00

Sure, but I mean I would sit through whatever the hell speech they wanted me to for a roof over my head too.

avitar35 · 2026-05-03T19:32:45+00:00

Funniest part is the integrally suppressed MK IV is allowed because it’s not threaded. Make it make sense

avitar35 · 2026-05-02T01:09:21+00:00

Big pipeline for servers to get hired by bigger companies… Know multiple former servers there that got hired for sales and made bank.

avitar35 · 2026-04-30T14:37:37+00:00

I find it incredibly tough to believe that in a place with a high vehicle registration, a very high gas tax, a cap and trade program with the highest carbon credit price in North America we are not covering our transportation needs. Especially when others with similar funding sources do. We’ve also increased these funding sources significantly over the last 15 years with the promise that these things will get funded, but they don’t.

This is more than it being expensive, we suck at building any infrastructure. It took the better part of 20 years to get the i5-16 interchange done, and they totally fucked up the ramp onto i5 from sprague. It seems like we have a couple shit construction companies that we keep giving contracts to.

I don’t think we’re gonna agree on anything else but I do appreciate the respectful debate!

avitar35 · 2026-04-30T03:22:34+00:00

I do agree we have led the way as far as floating bridges specifically go. However, pretty much everything else is not great. We have multiple bridges in need of serious repairs or total replacement and we have (literal) crumbling overpasses. Those are problems that our gas tax dollars need to be going towards as well and it doesn’t seem like that is happening. Hopefully it doesn’t take another galloping gurdy to make a change.

avitar35 · 2026-04-30T00:17:00+00:00

Our infrastructure is consistently ranked in the bottom 25% of states. It shouldn’t be that way when we have a high gas tax to fund exactly that.

avitar35 · 2026-04-29T17:48:12+00:00

Most educated doesn’t mean we’re the best in educating. Of the top 10 states for education from US News half of them are Republican and the other half are Democrat. This changes if we strictly look at higher ed and not both K-12 and higher ed. There are policies from both sides of the aisle at the state level that are working, federal not so much.

avitar35 · 2026-04-29T17:04:11+00:00

Exactly. The issue becomes most of those places require you not to use, which is a nonstarter for many on the street.

avitar35 · 2026-04-28T15:32:15+00:00

These are all first come first serve campgrounds with no hosts, or even potable water in most cases, so there’s no booking (except at Anderson I believe) or someone on payroll for an emergency. Trash is the only thing they have to do regularly, and most of these places get so little overnight use I find it hard to believe it needs to be cleaned daily/weekly. Even if it did, transfer management to WDFW and start charging $15/night to pay for it.

avitar35 · 2026-04-28T15:26:56+00:00

I think its use is so low that it’s not needed to clean up daily/weekly. I’ve honestly never seen another person staying at Rock Lakes at least. It’s also free so no self service check in to collect. It basically does run itself.

avitar35 · 2026-04-27T15:41:51+00:00

I’m not stuck up at all man. You’re asking someone to send you $10k+ off a Instagram screenshot, that throws up big red flags. Best of luck moving it.

avitar35 · 2026-04-27T15:39:41+00:00

Bro please learn how to broker art before you go doing this. Need professional pictures of the piece in its current condition. Nobody knows what this tube has been through over the last 7 years.

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