I write this as a service sector worker, not a high-earner. All I have is my paycheck, a modest home, and a 15-year-old car, and yet I pay proportionately more in taxes than a wealthy person, close to 14 percent of my income vs. the 4 percent that the billionaires of my state pay. Paying taxes is no one’s favorite, but we all depend on the clean water, roads, first responders and public schools that are paid for with those taxes.
The uber-rich also benefit from these necessities, while promoting policies that keep their own taxes disproportionately low and allow them to hoard the wealth that their workers create. They’re living on our dime, expecting the working families of Washington to subsidize services.
Please join me in urging Washington lawmakers to straighten out our tax code and require the rich to pay what they owe to support this great state — it’s only fair.
