UAW 4121 president Natalie Wellen in support: at UW we've already seen impact of cuts reducing jobs, less support for students.

"We want to see our state meet this moment with bold ideas to immediately safeguard education and health care, not further cuts"

Reykdal continued: Says the state school system is looking at having less money this year per kid than 7 years ago.

"If not now, when? This is a better solution than hoping that tariffs somehow will go away and not devastate our families"

OSPI superintendent Chris Reykdal: "when I hear people say 'not now, not here' it says 'don't solve problems' which is always the answer when people in #WALeg don't want to make the wealthiest pay what they owe in taxes" 🔥

Michele Thomas @wahousingalliance.bsky.social "asking those who are most comfortable to contribute to the wellbeing of their neighbors is not radical, it is necessity"

Notes Trump cuts to affordable housing $$ will increase homelessness. "Well WA Fund is most likely tool to offset harm this year"

Points out corporations in opposition to the Well Washington Fund received large tax cuts from the MAGA Big Billionaire Bill. Also notes the success of the Jumpstart tax in Seattle (which this is based on) as revenues from it continue to rise and economic activity increases.

@organizewithshaun.bsky.social on his bill: Trump admin disinvestment in medicaid, housing, higher education will devastate the state.

"HB 2100 is a modest tax on the largest 1% of corporations will pay to support programs under fire from the Trump admin"

Rep. Scott has a proposed amendment which would clarify which corporations would pay:

-Must employ >=250 people and >=$7
million in annual payroll.
-Excludes health care facilities, providers, hospital systems; school districts, local governments, quasi-municipal corporations, or state agencies.

ugh, thanks

What? Where did he say that?

It doesn't address the fact that Washington is a huge donor-tax state. But those taxes go directly to the feds and so are harder to mess with.

We should start working on that too (maybe make large employers route through state escrow accounts on their way to the IRS), but this is a great start.

Thank you for surfacing him for me! I'm at the stage of my life where my elementary/middle schools kids are surfacing most of my new music and so I miss a lot of stuff.

Amazing! Also musically more to my taste!