NEW STORY // Ferguson Ignites Revenue Battle with State Democrats, Threatening Veto
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Ferguson Ignites Revenue Battle with State Democrats, Threatening Veto - The Urbanist
# Governor Bob Ferguson’s reticence to approve new taxes represents a major obstacle to closing a big budget hole without deep cuts to social services.Amy Sundberg (The Urbanist)
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in reply to The Urbanist • • •What a fucking asshole.
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in reply to Lily Star • •Blaine
in reply to The Urbanist • • •His argument that we should not stake the future of the budget on a legally unproven tax, while leaving the door open to implementing said tax up to 100 million per year, as a test case, seems reasonable.
Personally, I would consider making up the deficit entirely with property tax, preferably weighted more towards lot valuation than improvements.