House Finance chair floats $2.25B tax on Washington’s billionaires — mostly Bezos

Carlyle tries again to slow the revolving door to the lobby

Most of the taxation buzz in Olympia this year has been about a capital gains tax and some type of carbon taxation. But suppose the Legislature decided to go directly after the really big fish — the state’s billionaires.

That’s exactly where House Finance Chair Noel Frame went on Wednesday. Her House Bill 1406 would impose a 1 percent annual wealth tax o…