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[BrBuss @brbuss]

@JayInslee This might be the dumbest post you’ve ever made. Golly you’re stupid.

[Tonya Stadlman 🇺🇸✝️🥇 @TonyaStadlman]

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Olympia passed a 9.9% income tax on households over $1M.

They're counting on 21,000 people to fund $3B/year.

One problem: Washington is already losing high earners faster than almost every state in America.

It's a millionaires' tax today. A me-and-you tax tomorrow. 🧵

[Braeden @BraedenSorbo]

I have not seen anybody talking about what’s going on in Canada right now.

This man was pulled over and told by police that he had to come with them because a psychiatrist labeled him “certifiable.”

No paperwork, no rule of law, just a doctor saying that if he didn’t come with him right then and there that he would be arrested.

The fact that a government could do this is terrifying.

[BrBuss @brbuss]

Posts like this should immediately get ones voting rights removed. 🤦‍♂️

[Mary Hinge OBE. 💙 @LeonardBriscoe3]

There are over 7 billion people in the world, if he gave everyone a billion dollars he would still have 343 billion left and world poverty would end.

Let that sink in.

https://t.co/fzhaAo8bS9

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

You can't tax rich people on unrealized gains from stocks because "it's not real money until it's sold."

So explain to me why my property taxes keep going up based on the unrealized value of my house?

I didn't sell it.
I didn't cash out.
I didn't make a profit.

But somehow I'm paying taxes on paper gains every single year.

Interesting how "unrealized gains" only become a problem when wealthy folks are involved.

[BrBuss @brbuss]

Another @GovBobFerguson success story.

[FOX 13 Seattle @fox13seattle]

In 2025, Gov. Bob Ferguson secured $100 million from the Legislature to hire more police officers. More than a year later, little of that money has been doled out, and the state has fewer officers. https://t.co/oJi636qwZd

[BrBuss @brbuss]

@ma1ybe Your proposal is to murder the baby instead? Yeah, fuck off.

[BrBuss @brbuss]

@BobFergusonGov @future42org You’re taxing people out of their homes. Great plan jackass.

[BrBuss @brbuss]

@tedcruz Christ is King!

[BrBuss @brbuss]

@realDonaldTrump You’ve lost your mind.

[BrBuss @brbuss]

Dear @GM, @Ford, @StellantisNA, @Toyota and all the other players in the new car industry.

Better wake up. People aren’t loving all the new technology you’re cramming down their throats.

Subscription fatigue is real and it isn’t going to end well.

[BrBuss @brbuss]

@thehoffather

[Rip Wheeler @WheelerRipWA]

Let's talk about Washington's two U.S. Senators...

Patty Murray has served 33 years. Senator Maria Cantwell has served 25 years. Combined: 58 years. Per official congressional records and standard Senate salary of $174,000 per year, Washington taxpayers have funded $5,742,000 for Murray and $4,350,000 for Cantwell. Over $10 million in salary between them.

What are we getting for that investment?

Dead last among all 50 states in per capita affordable housing supply per HUD data.

Third largest homeless population in the nation.

Fourth largest increase in homelessness between 2023 and 2024.

Fifth most unaffordable state for housing.

One-third of all Washington households paying more than 30% of income on housing.

Seattle housing costs 50% above the national average.

Washington has the highest gas prices in the country, 45% above the national average.

Tax competitiveness: 45th nationally per the Tax Foundation's 2026 Index, down from 33rd in 2020. Corporate tax ranking: 47th. Sales tax ranking: 49th.

Both held significant committee power. Murray served as Senate President Pro Tempore. In 2024, Cantwell cosponsored the third fewest bills among all Senate Democrats per GovTrack's annual report card.

On contested votes, Senate Democrats voted together 94.5% of the time in 2024, the highest party unity rate ever recorded per Roll Call. Neither Murray nor Cantwell is documented as an exception.

Cantwell won reelection in 2024 spending $12.9 million against a challenger who raised $742,000.

Murray won reelection in 2022 by 10 points in what was Washington's most competitive Senate race in years.

Washington has not elected a Republican to the Senate since 2000 per Ballotpedia.

Fifty-eight years is long enough to measure outcomes. These are the outcomes.

How do they make you feel? Good investment?
Shane Kidwell

[BrBuss @brbuss]

@GovBobFerguson You’re a mutt.

[BrBuss @brbuss]

@JayInslee Shut up nerd.

[BrBuss @brbuss]

@KIRO7Seattle Another @GovBobFerguson success story.

[BrBuss @brbuss]

@SaveOurSheriff No.

[Taren Feist @tarenfeist]

After Washington passed a millionaire tax, people did exactly what they’re supposed to do — they organized and filed a referendum to overturn it.

And the courts basically said: not so fast — that’s unconstitutional!

If a tax is considered essential to funding government, voters may not get a say at all.

But here in Oregon, we saw the opposite play out: People organized, gathered signatures, and forced a referendum on a major tax package.

Lawmakers couldn’t stop it — so they changed the election instead.

Different approach. Same underlying tension: What happens when voters push back on taxes lawmakers already passed?

Washington’s answer looks like: you don’t get a vote

Oregon’s answer looked like: you get a vote… just under government conditions

Either way, it raises a bigger question: How much power do voters actually have when it comes to taxes? Apparently in Washington — ZERO.

[BrBuss @brbuss]

@RepMGP No. It’s not.

[BrBuss @brbuss]

@skaushik100 FAFO.