Washington Votes Forum

It is pretty sad when there has to be a state law stating that in good economic times the state has to save money for bad economic times, and not overspend like Gregoire and the rest of the legislation did. Hopefully this one piece of legislationg will quell the Dems cry of "STATE INCOME TAX."

Why is it when money is tight, and the right thing to do is to cut-back and make smaller government there are people who just dream of ways to increase goverment? Vote the Batrastards Out.

Just another democratic attempt to legalize not only illegals to vote but to encourage voter fraud. I guess if you don't want to fix the budget you make it easier for criminals to vote and perhaps your job will be safe. Vote the BATRASTARDS OUT!

[quote user="PackNGPaw"] It demonstrates consolidation, streamlining, and an opportunity to re-focus the distributed efforts on our education system [/quote] What it does do is give the state government to a chance bloat itself, and not have to answer to the public with a superintendent that...

All primaries could be eliminated with RANKED CHOICE VOTING!

[quote user="Lainie59"] Sure. More union employees. This bill makes it clear we need a constitutional law that designates ENGLISH as our official language. By doing so, taxpayers at both federal and state levels would save billions in interpretive services and the printing of government documents...

Have you noticed that tax exemptions require no fiscal notes? Yet they cost the state billions in revenues. The total amount of the 567 revenue exemptions and deferrals currently amounts to $13 billion per biennium. This almost exactly equals the $7 billion amount of the 2010 deficit. All tax exemptions...