To get back to the topic of this thread........
I grew up in the N.W. until lured away by big money in Alaska during the pipeline construction. I haven't been back since, except to visit friends and cruise the San Juan's.
That neck of the woods has turned completely Liberal Democrat since I left and I don't like what it has become. They are looking to tax anything they can to fund stupid entitlement programs that do nothing more than keep them in office for another term. The poor don't, and shouldn't, run this country. The workers do, and they are the ones these liberals just fall over themselves inventing ways to tax them more. This falacy that the "rich" (Barack's $75k and up is a joke) need to be taxed more is just a class warfare argument meant to anger the poor people that vote for liberal Democrats and keep them in office.
History has shown that Socialism doesn't work. Just look at what Castro has had to do to keep people on his utopian island! Most can't wait to get off if they can, so they can live a life free from Socialism.
I remember that the wizards in Olympia voted to tax boat owners more because they could afford to own one, now they want to tax people that own cars with "big" motors. As if that is going to solve their problem.
Perhaps they should re-examine the lack of
Oil Refineries in Washington that could take advantage of the Alaska crude
oil that could easily get there. If they voted for building a few of those that could refine sour crude, the residents of Washington would benefit. Novel concept!