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The Latest from WPC: News impacting affordability, accountability and opportunity in Washington State


** Tax Day is Painful Enough Without Washington Adding Its Own
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When the federal income tax was created in 1913, the top rate was 7%, and it only applied to income above $500,000. This amounts to roughly $16 million in today’s dollars, and only about 2% of households were expected to pay anything. That promise lasted about five years. By 1918, the top rate was 77%, and within a generation, the federal government was withholding money from every paycheck.
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** NEW STUDY: WA homelessness: worse than you think (& avoidable)
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2024 Washington:
* 1st highest ratio of chronic homelessness.
* 1st highest growth of per-capita overdose deaths
* 3rd highest unhoused population
* 4th highest rate of adult mental illness.
* 1st highest per-capita rate of fentanyl and opiod overdoses seen in emergency rooms

And this was just for starters.
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** When Process Blocks Opportunity: The WinCo Case
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Washington state’s environmental and land-use rules should protect the public from genuine harm. They should not become tools that allow third parties to delay lawful projects, limit competition and block job opportunities without proving serious, project-specific damage. Halting the progress of a new Winco in Seattle hurts everyone.
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** Is Washington the Most Embarrassing State in the Nation?
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Todd Myers published in The Dispatch

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Few other states can combine Washington’s sheer incompetence with the arrogance of believing we are policy “leaders” and looking down on the rest of the country, even as we commit blunder after blunder. We are the New York Jets, but we think we are the Seattle Seahawks.
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** Tax Day Good News: You Could Keep $1,700 — and Help Washington Kids
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Both public and private schools can benefit from the federal tax credit scholarship program, and local districts, community groups, and philanthropic organizations can create their own SGOs — partnering directly with education providers to get students the academic and enrichment services they need.
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** FEATURED EVENT:
Women Who Build Washington
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Meet the women leaders driving innovation, advancing opportunity, and helping build a better Washington. Join us on May 5th in Bellevue for WPC’s Women Who Build Washington series. Space is limited, so reserve your seat here ([link removed]) or email Amy Ellisor at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) for more info.


** Washington is Worth Saving
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Will we remain an income-tax free state or despite ten straight votes of the people, will we yield to the income tax unconstitutionally pushed through the legislature. Washington now faces the biggest challenge yet to its future. Our state was already losing its competitive advantages. Help us fight the income tax, get control of the wreckless spending, and seek better policy solutions for Washington.
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