Loren Culp for Governor (Republic: landlords, wages, excise tax)

[kynight]

Originally Posted by 87112

How did you miss what I was referring to.

He didn't miss what you meant. He thought it would be useful to repeat something a million people say daily because they're in arrested development.

[Montguy]

Washington, omfg.

This state is so gone lol.

[LogaKoga]

Well, the debate starts in about 20 min. I'll start watching to see how it goes. I don't think I've even seen a pic of Culp, so if nothing else I can associate a face with the name.

[pnwguy2]

Scheduled to show on nbc affiliate in TriCities but no go. Fail.

[thatguy950]

Inslee.... good lord what a buffoon and absolutely taken to task by some small-town police chief, wow

[LogaKoga]

Originally Posted by thatguy950

Inslee.... good lord what a buffoon and absolutely taken to task by some small-town police chief, wow

I wasn't impressed with either. Inslee was rehearsed and milquetoast and Culp was only slightly less contrived. I doubt many WA voters watched and most of those that did probably won't change their intention. In other words Inslee is still an overwhelming favorite.

[ilovenature]

Inslee gets an F grade on his 2020 Fiscal Policy Report Card by Cato Institute. He just loves raising taxes. I'm not sure what's appealing about a governor like that.

"Jay Inslee received an F on Cato fiscal reports in 2014, 2016, and 2018, and did so again in this 2020 report. His appetite for spending increases is insatiable, and paying for all the increases has driven him to push nonstop for tax hikes.

Under Inslee, state general fund spending rose 16 percent in the 2018–2019 biennium. He proposed a 17 percent increase for the 2020–2021 biennium and the final increase was even higher. This year, with revenues lower than projected because of the recession, Inslee and lawmakers are resisting spending reductions and considering more tax increases.

When Inslee originally ran for the governor’s office, he promised not to raise taxes, but then in his first budget he proposed more than $1 billion in hikes. Since then he has proposed or approved myriad new and increased taxes on energy, capital gains, tobacco, businesses, real estate transactions, and online sales.

A ballot initiative to impose a carbon tax in 2016 was rejected by a 59–41 margin, but that failure did not slow Inslee down. In 2018, he proposed a new carbon tax plan to raise about $780 million a year. Washington voters defeated that tax at the ballot box in 2018 (Initiative 1631) by a 57–43 margin.

In 2018, Inslee proposed enacting a capital gains tax with a 9 percent rate. The tax would have raised more than $900 million a year, but it did not pass the legislature. In 2019, Inslee signed legislation creating a new payroll tax. The 0.58 percent tax on wages is expected to raise about $1 billion a year and fund a long‐​term care program.

There were more tax increases in 2019. Inslee signed into law a $170 million a year increase in the state’s real estate excise tax, which is a tax on the sale of property.

Then Inslee signed into law a surcharge on the state’s gross receipts tax (the “business and occupation” tax) to raise about $360 million a year. Higher rates were imposed for banks and 43 other industries including “software development, engineering, investment‐​related services, and independent medical practices. The legislation applies even higher surcharges to some advanced computing businesses.” Most states want to attract high‐​tech businesses, not scare them away, so imposing these punitive taxes seems bizarre.

In 2020, state lawmakers became concerned that the high‐​tech business surcharges would be too difficult to administer, so they passed a new bill to simplify the surcharges—and those changes raised yet another $117 million a year."

[LogaKoga]

Originally Posted by ilovenature

Inslee gets an F grade on his 2020 Fiscal Policy Report Card by Cato Institute. He just loves raising taxes. I'm not sure what's appealing about a governor like that.

A dogmatic platform of the Koch brothers gave him and F. So what? That's like an obese junk-food addict saying vegetables are unhealthy.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/...ato-institute/

[Transmition]

Originally Posted by ilovenature

He just loves raising taxes. I'm not sure what's appealing about a governor like that.

The availability of services not being dependent on the money currently in your pocket.


He's not great but it beats someone who has not shown any evidence of any competency in running anything, ever.

[pnwguy2]

Not Inslee’s best night but he will still win.