Dems making new rules to raise taxes.

Just say no to candy, cigarettes, alcohol, and taxes.

The real problem is that we keep voting these same people back into office

drive less. higher mileage cars. less gas tax. must raise gas tax. need more money

Get back in line, BWP. And hurry up and die....we need the room.

Be green.....live hard......die young. Can't afford to have you old bastards using up the resources. (Oh, never mind....that's me...disregard)

I've always wanted state taxes based upon years of residency. Get those F'ing California newbies to foot the bill. No reason they should have the immediate benefit of my many decades of taxes.

And people act like they're shocked? Taxing things that we need and want goes back to the dawn of tax collection. But then again, I think it's crazy that the Dems want to overturn a bill that was passed by WA residents. I think if they cut some WDFW IT jobs they might find that there's enough money around to not raise taxes.

BTW, if you don't want to pay taxes on beer, make your own. If you don't want to, just remember that the U.S. has one of the lowest alcohol taxes in the developed world by a longshot, if not the lowest.

And add on an extra extra San Francisco attitude tax.

Negative, Ghost Rider. You're still a Californian.

Is that why Duty Free is so attractive?

Not exactly, this measure, called "Proposition 13", had some interesting pieces in it...

* Taxes capped at MAXIMUM of 1% of assessed value (which was a big drop for many folks)
* Assessment can only increase a maximum of 2% a year--so long as the property isn't sold. This was designed (or marketed) as a way to ensure people weren't taxed out of their homes.

The side effect, in the 30 years that it's been in place, is that people who are in their homes for all 30 of those years have extremely low (well below market) assessed values--because california real-estate has gone up considerably more than 60% in value in the last 30 years.

It's GREAT for the longtime residents, and puts a ton of the burden on first time home buyers and folks moving into the state. Sorta like the suggestion above to set tax rates based on years of residency.

I don't know... is it? Can't say I've ever bought duty free booze before so I don't know what you're getting at.