Washington State Votes to Keep Making Millionaires Pay Their Share

Summary

Washington voters decided to keep their state’s millionaire tax on Tuesday. Fifty-eight percent of Washingtonians voted against Initiative 645, an effort to repeal the state’s millionaire tax led by right-wing donors and PACs like Let’s Go Washington . The PAC, headed by conservative hedge fund executive Brian Heywood, was the most active group in the $13.1 million failed effort to overturn the 9.9 percent tax on income over $1 million a year. “I can’t tell you how many people have left the state,” Heywood told The Guardian in October. “My business partner moved to Arizona. I probably know 50…

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