Issue Position: Taxes and Fees

Issue Position

I have pledged that I will never vote for any increase in the tax burden on the people of the State of Washington. And I will not play games with the budget by, instead of raising taxes, raising "fees" from one source and then transferring the money raised to pay for an unrelated expenditure. I believe that we are overtaxed by a government that has overreached its constitutional scope. So even in the most catastrophic of circumstances, if we need to increase funding for a truly essential purpose of government, there is already enough money that can be freed up from non-essential items.

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