I’m going to vote against removing the so-called millionaires tax but Washington needs fundamental tax reform. The B&O tax is onerous and a disincentive for small businesses, property taxes and sales taxes hit the young, young families, the elderly and the poor with substantial bills that destroy savings and entrepreneurial ideas. Maybe Republicans could abandon their “cut spending “ litmus tests, snd Democrats could stop funding everything that sounds neat, and they could work on real tax reform for a fair and just tax system that doesn’t penalize the real job creators: our small businesses and their employees!

I just made a reservation for the Port Townsend/Coupeville ferry, and the website says I need to print out my reservation to present at the tollbooth. Is that actually accurate? Will there be an issue if I just show up with the barcode on my phone? I’d imagine a lot of people don’t have regular printer access these days, I can go to the library if I need to but would certainly rather not. Thanks!

Now everyone hates the vague crazy language all initiative writers use to cloud whatever is going on (this is a nonpartisan problem), but this goes a bit further.

Initiative IP26-645 repeals a tax and defines what income is. Even if it passes there's basically no way it gets through the court.

The initiativeers are so bad at writing these, it makes me think they're doing it on purpose:

1. There's good income in running initiatives, ask Tim Eyman.
2. Intentionally pushing something to the court to get overturned feeds a political narrative about 'activist judges' and encourages the sense of wrathful impotence that seems to be what the right wants to engender in conservative voters.

Am I crazy? Are they just incompetent?