Teagan

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Random Citizens of King County, thank you for paying over $600 each year for your $30 car tabs.

Yes we know we promised light rail to your neighborhoods

Yes we know we had a budget we blew through

Yes we know we hinted there were some deadlines

But we have come to the difficult decision that

You can just suck it…

The punishments will continue until morale improves…

[Teagan @OCteagan]

@wseattleangry @MistralComet What is?

[Teagan @OCteagan]

You think the income only affects those that make over a million a year? Think again! Our agricultural industry cannot take another hit! Here are some facts in how the income tax will affect our farmers, ranchers, and orchardists.

Disproportionate Hit to One-Time Asset Liquidations:
While very few Washington farmers clear $1 million in annual profit from day-to-day crop or dairy sales, their physical assets such as heavy tractors, specialty combine harvesters, and agricultural storage bins are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each. When a family farmer sells off old equipment to upgrade to modern or greener technologies, the IRS counts the disposal of that property as income. Because the state tax mirrors the federal code and lacks structural deductions for agricultural equipment or buildings, a farmer trying to upgrade can easily be pushed past the $1 million single-year threshold, triggering the 9.9% penalty on what is actually reinvestment capital.

Destruction of Farmer "Nest Eggs" and Forced Bankruptcy:
Unlike everyday corporate employees who build tax-deferred retirement accounts over decades, farmers traditionally sink nearly all of their lifetime liquid wealth directly back into their land, machinery, and livestock. When a farmer prepares to retire and liquidates the farm's assets all at once, the entirety of their retirement safety net is recognized as income in a single tax year. Critics point out that wiping nearly 10% off the top of a farmer's lifetime retirement fund penalizes them unfairly compared to other professions. Furthermore, for struggling farms forced into rapid liquidation to pay off lenders, losing 10% to the state could incentivize them to enter formal bankruptcy proceedings rather than executing an orderly wind-down.

Punishment for "Good Years" to Offset Deficits:
Agricultural income in Washington is incredibly volatile due to fluctuating global commodity prices, seasonal weather anomalies, and pest outbreaks. Independent farmers frequently weather multiple consecutive years of financial losses or flat-line breaking-even. When a "good year" finally occurs with bumper crops and high market prices, the revenue must be saved to pay down past operational debts and buffer against future crop failures. Because the tax looks strictly at a single year's Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) without a mechanism for agricultural multi-year income averaging, a single anomalous good year can trigger a massive tax bill, despite the farm being deeply in the red over a five-year average.

How do you think this will affect agricultural workers, rural Washington, and the price of food on the table?

Sign the Initiative - STOP the income tax!
@letsgowa @WAFarmBureau @wacattle @BrandiKruse @thehoffather

[Teagan @OCteagan]

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[Teagan @OCteagan]

Nope!

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

The income tax is coming for you
The state has a horrible track record of spending your money
Do you trust Jamie Pedersen and Bob Ferguson to keep their promises?

https://t.co/dPUjrStHC0

[Travis Couture @TravisSCouture]

I’ve had tougher questions from my wife about where to go for dinner.

Having done many interviews with Chris, he’s a fair reporter who will ask tough questions. This one wasn’t even that difficult. Could’ve answered it in the time they spent discussing whether to continue.

Part of the fun of these is being smart enough to use your own brain to answer hard questions, and being able to hit the curve ball when it’s pitched.

[Let's Go Washington @letsgowa]

No one makes better cases against the income tax than the people who worked to pass the income tax.

[Let's Go Washington @letsgowa]

In case it wasn't clear that the Attorney General's office was advising Senator Pedersen on how to circumvent the Constitution to implement the income tax, we made this graphic to spell it out for you. S-H-A-D-Y.

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

How efficient has the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) been able to increase the number of homeless in Seattle?

Well from a homeless per 100,000 — they have successfully defended our title as #1 over the past 10 years.

However, as you can see from the chart below, New York, Denver, Las Vegas, and Portland and growing much faster than us so there is still work for Dow Constantine to do

[Let's Go Washington @letsgowa]

The WIAA chose not to stand up for girls' sports, but momentum is growing across the nation. We're seeing more people speak out about how unfair and unsafe it is for girls to be forced to compete against boys. Vote yes on IL26-638 this November and let's stand up for girls.

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Unconstitutional Income Tax Referendum Lawsuit Update

We have filed a supplemental briefing on our lawsuit regarding the illegal and abusive “necessity clause” inserted in the already unconstitutional income tax —high lighting 1) The collusion between the AG office and Jamie Pedersen to prevent a vote and 2) the damning evidence straight from the AGO’s own mouth that this was a procedure to prevent a vote by the people rather than something necessary for running the state.

The AG’s office now has until April 23rd to reply to our supplemental briefing

Then we have until April 24th to reply to their reply.

The case goes before the court on April 30th.

Sign up now for us to send you referendum signature sheets should we win our case or initiative sheets should the courts choose to sidestep the constitutional limits placed on the legislature. https://t.co/nKzm0n2dR4

Some partial screen shots from the supplemental briefing

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Uneducated-arrogant-hypocritical-pro-tax-on-you-but-not-if-it-applies-to-me-fool say what?

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Hypocrite Nick Hanauer — advocator of taxes for you, spreader of other people’s wealth, and apparently now tax refugee from the economically illiterate tax policy consequences he has championed, opines from an undisclosed location on a subject about which he seems ignorantly obtuse….

[Teagan @OCteagan]

So now business owners that are speaking out are being targeted.

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Vindictive anti business thuggery is just one of the symptoms on open display from 40 years of one party rule

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Public Records request shows the income tax wasn't legislation. It was a lawsuit disguised as a bill — designed by the AG's office, for the legislature, against the voters.

1. THE REAL GOAL: Overturn the income tax ban to enable a BROAD progressive income tax

"the overall legislative goals, it seems to me, are to have our Supreme Court overturn Culliton v. Chase."
— AGO Senior Counsel Chuck Zalesky, Jan. 19 email

2. THEY SCHEMED TO BLOCK VOTERS FROM HAVING A SAY

"I did not see an emergency clause... Without one, someone could try to subject the bill to a referendum."
— Solicitor General Noah Purcell, Dec. 11 email

3. THE AG'S OFFICE ACTIVELY COLLUDED TO HELP DEFEAT RATHER THAN DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION

"The Attorney General's role is to defend the constitution, not help the legislature find ways to violate it."
— Jackson Maynard, Citizen Action Defense Fund

4. THEY ADMITTED THE TAX WAS PROBABLY ILLEGAL — AND DID IT ANYWAY

"the proposed tax would fall squarely within the type of taxes that our Supreme Court has invalidated"
— AGO memo, Dec. 11

The AG's own lawyers warned Ferguson the tax violated the Constitution.

5. THE AG OFFICE ADVISED SCRUBBING PRARTS OF THE BILL TO HIDE THE TRUE TARGET

"the better course is to eliminate it (the marriage penalty) so that the case can focus on Culliton"
— Senior AAG Dan Jensen, Jan. 21 email

40 years of one party rule
The income tax is coming for you
Olympia doesn’t need no stinking constitution….

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[Teagan @OCteagan]

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[Teagan @OCteagan]

And buying a home is harder than ever for median income individuals and families.

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Define "more affordable." Because Washingtonians just got a new income tax, one of the highest gas taxes in the country, rising property taxes, offensively high finger in the eye car tabs, sky high grocery costs due to the CCA, soaring energy costs, unaffordable homes due to over regulation. Which part is the affordable part?

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Schools have no business keeping secrets from Parents

Seattle and King County Schools conduct “surveys” which are actually assessments of your children.

One such survey/assessment is SBIRT (Survey Brief Intervention, Refer treatment)

The objective is to ask invasive questions of your children, keep it in a database often without your consent or knowledge and use it in what appears to be a grand unsanctioned social and psychological experiment on your kids.

Originally the data was purposefully kept in a file outside of HIPAA and FERPA regulations to allow schools to more freely use and share the data with research outlets such as the UW,

This practice has been uncovered by some determined moms.

You can see that the original records obtained below, contained student ID info, because they were purposefully not kept in the HIPAA and FERPA files. So to be clear
1) Schools are collecting non academic deeply personal information on students
2) keeping that information secret from parents
3) Failing to protect such information through mislabeling and mishandling
4) sharing the data with research organizations such as the UW

Schools have no business being in the experimental psychology business. They have no business keeping secrets from parents.

If you have school kids , inform the school that your children will not participate in any online or other “surveys”
Demand access to all information collected on your child

Vote Yes on IL26-001 to protect your children and restore parents right to know what happens with their children at school.

The following comment and photos of actual Seattle School district excel data files give a small flavor of what is captured

“Attaching screenshots below from the school gender assessment records (created during school hours) obtained thru public records requests. How can schools be responsible for keeping all these kids safe? They're tracking each student's gender identity in their database system (initiated by the school with universal gender identity assessment test), yet the schools have policies keeping this confidential from the child's parents.”

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

This video didn’t age well. Seattle’s economy is tanking as businesses flee and 40% of office space now sits empty, stores are closing, and …. Oh yeah hero “capitalist” Nick Hanauer has fled to Houston, or Malta, or anywhere but Seattle….

[Teagan @OCteagan]

@bkheywood Almost like he is counting on it. I wonder why?