After marathon debate, WA House advances income tax
It took over 24 hours of grinding floor debate, but Democrats in the Washington House approved an income tax Tuesday on households earning over $1 million a year.
The state is now closer to enacting a tax on wages than it has been in nearly a century.
For the bill to become law, it must first return to the Senate for agreement on changes before going to Gov. Bob Ferguson, who has said he’ll sign it. After that, challenges in court and at the ballot box are expected.
Powerless to stop a policy they despise, Republicans filibustered with a barrage of nearly 60 amendments, many decided with time-sapping oral roll call votes. Democratic lawmakers proposed nearly two dozen amendments of their own, further extending the clock on one of the longest debates on a single bill in recent memory.
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