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jenk ([personal profile] jenk) wrote2010-10-17 04:40 pm
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The chart that made me think that the state income tax initiative (1098) should pass:



I first saw it, along with others, in The Stranger. I already thought that having a more diverse income stream would make state government easier to manage, but this brought home the unfairness of our current consumption-based state tax structure. It's harder on those who have less income.

(Yes, currently I wouldn't be subject to the income tax established by 1098. But there were a few years with MS "ordinary income" stock options that I would've been, so this isn't totally academic to me.)