The Washington State House Finance Committee made revisions to a proposed income tax after a group of progressive lawmakers said the previous version gave away too much while not doing enough for working families.

“The Washington State House Finance Committee made revisions to a proposed income tax after a group of progressive lawmakers said the previous version gave away too much while not doing enough for working families.

“A tax break that would have benefited big businesses has been removed from the latest version of a bill to tax incomes more than $1 million is being advanced by Democratic leaders. A group of 13 progressive lawmakers in the House pushed for those provisions to be stripped.”

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    …nothing to help the working class? aka nothing has changed

    Sorry for the snarky tone but you should probably read the article fully before making statements like this. There are a number of benefits to children and working class families from this change.

    Democrats in the House committee also worked to put in a sales tax exemption for diapers and moved up a scheduled rollback of sales tax on technology services that the Senate had added.

    Budget writers in both the House and Senate are counting on billions in revenue from the tax to cover the state’s operating expenses starting in 2029. Without the tax, the current supplemental budget plans included hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to child care subsidies over the next four years.