Records: WA leaders planned millionaire’s tax to challenge 1933 income-tax ban
Records show Washington’s attorney general and Democratic leaders plotted to use a proposed millionaire’s tax to press the state Supreme Court to revisit a 1933 ban on income taxes.
Records obtained by WFMZ show the Washington attorney general and Democratic leaders wrote that they intend to force the state Supreme Court to reconsider its 1933 decision banning income taxes. The documents indicate the proposed millionaire’s tax is being positioned as a vehicle to legalize a progressive state income tax.