EXCLUSIVE: Records reveal WA millionaire’s tax is meant to legalize progressive income tax

(The Center Square) – The Washington attorney general and Democratic leaders plotted how to overturn a nearly century-old decision that banned income taxes in the state, writing they want to force the state Supreme Court to reconsider its 1933 decision, nearly 1,000 pages of public records obtained by The Center Square show.

“I would like to force the Washington Supreme Court to reconsider its caselaw that considers income to be property," Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, who sponsored SB 6346, wrote in an email on Aug. 27