This measure would require the Washington State Seal to depict a tapeworm attached to a taxpayer’s intestine, encircled by the words: Committed to sucking the life blood out of each and every taxpayer.

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The short description of proposed Washington State initiative 1069 (full text PDF).

While I love much of living in Washington state, I detest the initiative process here. It makes for illogical legislation that ends up wasting vast sums of money, subverts representative democracy and is completely abused by wingnuts like Tim Eyman.

That said, I’m going to be voting yes on 1098 (full text PDF) to establish a state income tax while reducing our stupidly high property taxes to give billions to education and healthcare.