Washington State
NEW LAND VALUE TAX
Yes, a Land Value Tax Is Possible in Washington State
A new report modeling a property tax building exemption in Spokane rebalances incentives toward community goals, encouraging homebuilding and discouraging in-city vacant land speculation.
A new report finds that Spokane could spur more homebuilding and new businesses and discourage speculation with a powerful "land value tax."
Dan Bertolet
June 3, 2026
Washington’s property tax system quietly rewards landowners who sit on vacant lots in our cities, while penalizing investment in the new homes, shops, and jobs that create real community value. The fix for this counterproductive dynamic is a land value tax that lowers the tax on buildings and raises it on land.
A new report from the Center for Land Economics proposes a policy that would exempt building value from property tax to create a revenue-neutral tax shift from buildings to land, replicating a land value tax while adhering to Washington state’s tax rules.
The report models this approach in the city of Spokane, finding that it would encourage the in-city homebuilding that cities need to curb prices, and discourage vacant lots and land speculation; it would flip the incentive structure without touching the city’s bottom line.
Most homeowners wouldn’t see much change in their tax bill at all, while the shift would be progressive in lower-income and more racially diverse neighborhoods, where homeowners would see larger tax reductions.
By granting this authority through the Vibrant Cities Act, the Washington legislature would empower cities to use their own tax code to cool land speculation, spur homebuilding, and return community-created land value back to the public.
In communities across the state, Washingtonians are reeling from high home prices and rents caused by the state’s severe shortage of homes. In cities and towns, big and small, from Bellingham to Walla Walla, people need more affordable home choices. At the same time, thousands of acres of vacant and underused lots pervade many of our urban neighborhoods, even in otherwise dynamic downtowns.
One big reason for this disconnect? The tax structure. Under North America’s standard property tax system, the owner of a vacant lot is taxed only a fraction of what’s paid by their neighbor who owns a productive building on a similar lot. The tax system rewards speculation on underutilized land, while discouraging investment in the new homes, shops, and offices that generate community vitality.
A fix for this dysfunctional state of affairs is known as a land value tax. Translation: tax the land more and the buildings less.
The problem is that, while a land value tax may be conceptually simple, it’s also fraught, both politically and legally. Politically, because, well, it’s taxes. And legally, Washington State has a particularly formidable barrier: the state constitution prohibits taxing buildings and land at different rates.
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Sen. Marko Liias chairs WA Senate Transportation. He writes the state's transit budget and uses his private email to avoid public records
He filled out an official Sound Transit reference form to help two lobbyists win a taxpayer-funded contract; the same lobbyists who lobby him
Meet Darializa Avila Chevalier, the candidate Zohran Mamdani endorsed for Congress.
On October 8th, 2023, while Jews were still being slaughtered, raped & kidnapped across southern Israel, she attended the "All Out For Palestine" rally in NYC.
Washington State
PRECINCT STRATEGY - VOTER OUTREACH
You Don't Have to be a Precinct Committee Officer (PCO) to do Precinct Strategy
June 4, 2026
1. Volunteer with your local county GOP party.
2. Volunteer with your favorite Republican candidate.
3. Do Voter OUTREACH before the August 2026 Primary.
▪︎ Door-to-door canvassing / knocking on doors.
▪︎ Phone banking or texting.
▪︎ Distributing literature (yard signs, flyers).
▪︎ Building personal networks (hosting an event for your favorite candidate).
▪︎ Voter registration drives.
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: State Department & UN ties to Armed Queers SLC leader now confirmed 🚨🚨
First, credit to @SKDoubleDub33 for the crucial tip, PLEASE follow, they'll be doing a podcast on this soon.
Here’s what you need to know:
🔻 Armed Queers SLC is under investigation for possible foreknowledge of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
🔻 Their leader, Ermiya Fanaeian, was recognized by a State Dept–affiliated NGO, Utah Global Diplomacy, as a recipient of the "7 for 17" Award for advancing the UN's 17 Goals
🔻 Utah Global Diplomacy has since scrubbed Fanaeian's presence from their website. Unknown when this purge happened. The receipts remain.
Patience as I pull this thread together.
Henry Nowak was stabbed 5 times, then handcuffed and left to die because someone accused him of being racist.
We asked UK police what kind of speech could get you arrested.
They told us saying something offensive was enough.
Henry Nowak died because of police like this.
This guy's chickens kept getting targeted by hawks, so he started feeding local crows. Now he has an army of crows that patrols his property and chases the hawks away.
🚨HOLY CRAP!!!
ICE has just confirmed that it ARRESTED THE EMPLOYERS of 48 illegal immigrants in South Carolina!!!
Both the Plant Manager and HR Coordinator for a casting company in Abbeville SC were ARRESTED and face years in prison.
IS THIS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR?!!!!!
🚨 Wanna puke? Were you wondering what's been happening on the campus where Charlie Kirk, an American hero, was killed? It's pretty damn sickening.
Acting president of Utah Valley University, Dr. F. Wayne Vaught, earns approximately $278,000. His campus receives nearly $100 MILLION in federal funding.
Under his leadership, UVU was set to host podcaster Sharon McMahon as their commencement speaker.
Hours after Charlie was murdered, she shouted to the world that he was "bigoted" and stated that his ass*ssination "doesn't erase the harm many experienced from his words."
Her appearance was canceled after being exposed by TPUSA.
There's now a student organization called the 'Civil Disobedience Club' operating on his campus.
CDC’s social media states that "MAGA = Nazis," and their Discord channel mocks the assassination of Charlie Kirk: "Why can’t this goofy a** b***h just make like the meme he already turned into and just die? Again."
When ICE and Border Patrol attended a career fair at UVU this spring, over 100 students belonging to this organization took over the lobby, screeching anti-ICE garbage, calling them Nazis and murderers, and chanting that "Jesus was a refugee."
The violent rhetoric online from this student organization is escalating.
Our Department of Education will hand them nearly $100 million AGAIN for the 2026-2027 academic year.
H/T @campusreform
The mayor announced, on camera, that Seattle would be the only host city in North America leaving its World Cup surveillance cameras switched off. If something happens here, God forbid, the first question the world asks is what Seattle had in place. The mayor has to explain that the cameras were installed, that the operators were trained, that the only thing missing was the switch, and that she made the call to leave it off.
At least we had our principles.
What she's doing right now, in real time, with 11 days on the clock, is asking people with bad intentions to pinky-swear they won't attack here.
Today's video commentary:
🚨Buffalo's Imported Islamic Nightmare...
Yemen Jihadi Savage Slaughters Wife, 3 & 4-Year-Old Sons, and Deli Owner in Cold Blood
This is what mass Islamic immigration from the Middle East delivers to American streets.
Yemen native Saleh Mohamed, 29, of Cheektowaga, went on a murderous rampage on June 1st. He first gunned down 43-year-old deli owner Shukri Muthana at his Grant Street store in Buffalo.
Then he drove home and executed his own 26-year-old wife, Aaisha Abdulla, and their two little boys, ages 3 and 4, in their Ellen Drive house.
Four innocent lives erased in under an hour.
Police needed an interpreter because this imported killer "does not even speak English well." Yet his killing skills were razor sharp, a 9mm pistol, point-blank executions.
Language barrier slowing the investigation? Too bad. The blood on his hands speaks louder than any translator ever could.
Hundreds from Buffalo's massive Islamic community packed the Lackawanna Islamic Mosque for Muthana's funeral Wednesday. Of course the call to prayer rang out as they gave the victim a full Sharia-compliant burial, wrapped and placed directly in the ground per Islamic ritual that goes against our sanitary rules and Western burial standards. They mourned one of their own, while the rest of Buffalo is left wondering how many more "neighbors" like this we've imported.
As I've documented for years, Buffalo has been transformed from a steel town to a Sharia town. Empty churches turned into mosques. Streets are renamed after Medina. Factories gone, but the call to prayer echoes. East Buffalo's "revitalization"?
Its replacement. Cheap land, no-interest Islamic financing, and endless migration from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Yemen, and beyond. This isn't assimilation, it's conquest.
This slaughter screams honor killing, the misogynist sickness baked into Islamic culture. Men raised to believe they own women and children. "Dishonor" = death. And now it's here.
🚨 Just look at the pattern we've imported:
• 91% of honor killings worldwide are committed by Muslims.
• In the West, 95% are by Muslim fathers, brothers, or proxies.
• Pew Research: Large majorities of Muslims in Pakistan (89%), Afghanistan (85%), and Egypt (81%) support stoning women for adultery. Over half believe honor killings for sex outside marriage are at least partially justified.
• UK: 1 in 10 British Muslims support killing a family member over "dishonor." 1 in 5 young British Muslims say "honor" violence is acceptable.
• U.S. DOJ: Dozens of honor killings per year here, victims often deemed "too Westernized."
We are importing the Middle East's barbarism wholesale. Europe has been bleeding from this for years. Now it's Buffalo. Now it's your city next.
This isn't "diversity." This is demographic invasion with body counts.
Saleh Mohamed is the symptom. Open borders + chain migration + refugee pipelines from jihadist hellholes = more dead families.
Enough.
Deport. Halt. Secure the border before the next Yemen import turns your neighborhood into a slaughterhouse.
Buffalo didn't look like this before.
It sure as hell doesn't have to look like this tomorrow.
🚨 Please watch: While casually walking in NYC, a man goes unhinged by my presence. He yells and screams that I am “Islamophobic and racist” but can’t give one example.
Shouts “someone is going to find you” while signaling a gunshot to the head.
“I want you to go into any leftist organization and show them my photo and they will know who I am” he yells when I ask him how he has helped society.
Uncovering fraud and helping America has become the most dangerous job in America, unfortunately.
🚨 I'm not letting this one go. As long as I'm allowed on this platform, I'll remind everyone about Syracuse University "professor" Farhana Sultana from Bangladesh.
In October of 2025 our State Department declared, "the United States has no obligation to host foreigners that wish death on Americans."
Well, they missed this bum. If you pay taxes, you should absorb what Professor Farhana Sultana, who teaches about "climate change," wrote after she watched the murder of Charlie Kirk:
"Rest in p*ss. Give him what he valued; no empathy. He's a genocidal, white supremacist. He and his ILK can rest in p*ss."
She tweeted even more vile garbage hours after Charlie was murdered.
A professor from BANGLADESH couldn't even control her hatred for an American citizen for one day.
Syracuse University gave her over 100 days of taxpayer-funded paid-leave after she celebrated Charlie's murder.
This is what our Dept of Education is fleecing American taxpayers for. Not a word from anyone at the State Dept or our Education Secretary, Linda McMahon.
She's still employed. We're on the hook for this campus.
BONUS: this lunatic celebrated online when a former military member lit himself on fire for "Palestine" in front of the Israeli Embassy in D.C.
@StateDept@EDSecMcMahon
BREAKING
Olympia, WA
Fraudulent WA GOV activity reported to @IRSnews@DOJFraudDiv
DCS of WA DSHS
Alleged scam stealing from American parents, weaponizing the IRS, earn interest at scale to pay for DEI & Sanctuary policies
Harming American families to support DEI and illegals
Elementary school teachers in Olympia, Washington, were sent a video as part of "Pride Month Resources" meant to teach kids as young as kindergarten that gender is a spectrum.
"Because they were white, they didn't fit your victim narrative. I don't care."
These girls were victims.
Full stop.
Every person who failed them MUST PAY A PRICE.