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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Hey, Supermajority Democrats!

posted by on April 11 at 13:16 PM

A bill to keep tabs on corporate tax breaks by including those de facto expenditures in the budget, died in the House this session.

The bill, pushed by the liberal Tax Fairness Coalition, had 17 co-sponsors, including lead sponsor Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos (D-37, South Seattle). Sanots’s bill was passed out of the Finance Committee to the Rules Committee, but leadership yanked it from Rules and sent it back to Finance, where it’s now, reportedly, wasting away.

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1

too busy working on a scheme to subsidize the sonics...

Posted by wf | April 11, 2007 1:23 PM
2

Unfortunately, corporate graft tends to have bipartisan support.

Posted by keshmeshi | April 11, 2007 2:06 PM
3

Am I taking crazy pills or something? Aren't the Democrats in the majority????????

Posted by wtf? | April 11, 2007 2:12 PM
4

Pssst.

Corporations are made up of people. Living, breathing, tax paying, child supporting people.

Pass it on.

Posted by Sean | April 11, 2007 2:35 PM
5

@4,

Pssst...

living, breathing, individual tax paying, people don't have $1.1 million dollar tax subsidies written into the law on their behalf. But corporations do. Seem fair?

Pass it on.

Posted by Katie Seagal | April 11, 2007 2:42 PM
6

Josh,

Do you cover any of the good stuff going on down in Oly? I mean without being snarky? Maybe you should go back to covering City Hall.

Posted by watson | April 11, 2007 2:50 PM
7

Watson @ #6,

I do.
Yesterday they passed the domestic partnership bill.
I Slogged about it a lot, and I have a story about it in today's new Stranger.

Posted by Josh Feit | April 11, 2007 3:04 PM
8

frank chopp is a coward

Posted by chopp sucks | April 11, 2007 5:25 PM

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