The Olympian agrees: No-new-taxes approach is immoral, unjust

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"This is a pivotal week for state lawmakers. This is the week legislators must adopt a balanced budget for the remaining 15 months of the two-year budget cycle, filling a revenue shortfall of $2.8 billion in the process. Lawmakers already cut about $3.5 billion in spending last year to help close a $9 billion budget shortfall. They did not raise taxes.

The question this week is whether Democrats, who enjoy sizeable majorities in the House and Senate, can muster enough votes to both cut programs and raise taxes and get out of town by Thursday’s scheduled adjournment.

It’s a formidable challenge, but the outcome will have tremendous ramifications across the state of Washington.

We believe the final budget solution must include both program cuts and tax increases. The all-cuts budget, which Republicans seem to favor without offering up a budget proposal of their own, is inhumane and unacceptable."

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