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Giving the income tax back before its enacted

About that $100M for cops... and some cutoff casualties

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Paul Queary, Jonathan Martin, Tim Gruver, and Rowan Herbst Minino
Feb 18, 2026
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Perhaps more telling than the Legislature’s enthusiasm for enacting an income tax on the state’s highest earners is the headlong rush to spend the money on various forms of tax relief before the ink is even dry. And then there’s the interesting angle of Gov. Bob Ferguson pouring populist gasoline on that fire.

This week’s Senate passage of the aggressive…

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