Lack of a State Capital Gains Tax Means Wealthiest 1 Percent Get a Huge Tax Break in Washington State

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We host regular Budget Beat webinars throughout legislative session to bring you updates and breaking news from Olympia and timely policy analysis. Join us on Friday, June 23, for a Budget Beat about federal budget proposals, featuring Louisa Warren of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. And visit our YouTube channel to watch our previous Budget Beats.

Testimonies in Olympia

To advance our legislative priorities, the Budget & Policy Center team is in the state capitol throughout session testifying on a wide range of bills. Watch our recent testimonies on TVW:

Executive Director Misha Werschkul testifying against Senate bills to create exemptions to the minimum wage. Watch here and here. (Feb. 2)
Deputy Director Julie Watts testifying in support of the Senate bill and the House bill that promotes pathways to higher education for parents on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Jan. 30, Feb. 3); and testifying in favor of the Senate's and the House's intergenerational poverty-prevention bill (Feb. 1, Feb. 3) and for a House bill that supports family economic security (Feb. 14)
Associate Director of Fiscal Policy Andy Nicholas testifying about the proposal to tie Boeing's tax break eligibility to the size of its workforce (May 2), the proposal to close the state capital gains tax break (April 26), the House Democrats' revenue proposal (April 3), the House Democrats' budget proposal (March 27), the need to reduce property taxes for low-income homeowners (March 14), the House carbon tax bill (March 14), and the Senate Republicans' education funding bill (Jan. 30).
Policy Analyst Kelli Smith testifying in support of the House bill to remove the 1 percent property tax levy growth cap (Feb. 10)
Senior Policy Analyst Jennifer Tran testifying in support of the Senate bill to collect better data on hunger (Feb. 1)

View Our School Funding Plenary

View the Budget Matters 2016 conference plenary, "What's at Stake in the 2017-2019 Budget: Funding McCleary and Beyond." Moderated by Ann Dornfeld of KUOW, the plenary features Nathan Gibbs-Bowling, the 2016 Washington State Teacher of the Year; Lew Moore of the Washington Research Council; Roxana Norouzi of OneAmerica; and Sen. Christine Rolfes. The plenary starts after an intro by Executive Director Misha Werschkul and an intro video by Gov. Inslee.

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