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A corporate campaign to elbow a tax on big employers

A corporate campaign to elbow a tax on big employers

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If you perused The Seattle Times homepage earlier this week, you might have spotted this banner advertisement from something called “People For An Affordable Washington”.

Despite the populist-sounding name, People For An Affordable Washington is less actual people than a new political embodiment of some of Washington’s largest corporate citizens, includi…

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