The Walmart tax
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Here at the Observer we like to flag big tax bills moving fast and quiet — and ones that lurk low and deep, poised to resurface late in the session. On that latter note, see SB 6173, aka the Walmart tax.
Sen. Emily Alvarado’s bill would achieve a progressive dream of making Big Business pay for foisting low-wage workers’ medical care onto Medicaid. It would require employers with 100 or more workers to pay the full freight of Washington’s Apple Health — the state and federal portion — if their folks are on the state Medicaid plan.
