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Everyone agrees the state faces a multi-billion-dollar budget gap. But how did we get here? And how best to bridge that gap?
This week we get two different perspectives. Invest in Washington Now Executive Director Treasure Mackley argues the wealthy need to shoulder a bigger share of the state’s tax burden, and argues against cuts to state government programs and services.
Enterprise Washington President Paul Graves talks about his organization’s public education campaign on the budget called “Budget Breakdown”, which traces the rise in new state spending on things like schools and homelessness, and asks the question, what results is the state getting for that money?