Progressive Party of Washington State

We call on small/medium sized businesses to join us in a call to reform the Washington state B&O tax system!
While small and medium sized businesses B and O taxes went up,  dozens the big corporations get 100′s of thousands to millions in tax breaks.

Small and medium sized businesses provide 51% of the jobs.
There are 11 state representatives who have introduced HB 2978, a bill to close a few tax loopholes.  HB 2978 will close loopholes on major banks and use the savings for K-3 education.
Help us support this bill! Please call the legislative hotline to tell your Legislators who should pay more than you.
1-800-562-6000. Close loopholes now and every year!

A search of state web pages revealed that Corporations in Washington got breaks on the B and O Taxes covering twenty-one pages. For a peek at our non-taxpayers click here Tax Breaks

After this and other abuses of our tax dollars came out, lawmakers mostly blamed the public for voting in Tim Eyeman’s 2/3′s majority requirement for new taxes. There are a few brave souls trying to stop the madness. Find out if your legislator has the courage to ask those who have the money to pay for running this state. Call them and ask what they are doing to flip the funding and close tax-loopholes, instead of cutting everything needed by the rest of us.

Organize to get these tax loopholes closed, and to keep amateur economics, “experts” like Tim Eyeman from messing up our state’s tax system.

Our friends at Sisters Organize for Survival have put together a great little pamphlet of how to find money to run our government. Flip the Funding If you like it, print it up and pass it around.

Join Sisters Organize for Survival, or similar groups in your area, or start one.

Work with Sisters Organize for Survival
to gather signatures on
Initiative 1098 to tax the rich!

With the victory of Basic Health under our belt, Sisters Organize for Survival (SOS) is continuing the fight to defend the most vulnerable against cuts in services, education and jobs! To keep vital services alive, requires deep-going tax reform.

In May and June, SOS will be gathering signatures to get Initiative 1098 on the November ballot. I-1098 would establish an income tax on individuals earning above $200,000 and couples earning above $400,000. It would also reduce the property tax and relieve taxes on small businesses. Passing this initiative would be an important first step in changing Washington’s regressive tax structure, which unfairly taxes poor and working folks.

All are invited to join in this effort! Help us petition at the events listed below. Or contact SOS for other ways to get involved!

1) Rally for queer “Equality on the Job–in the Military and at Home,” noon-1pm at Westlake Plaza, downtown Seattle. Sponsored by Seattle OUTProtest.

2) SOS Neighborhood Outreach, Thursday, May 27, 6:30 pm, New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle
Meet up for a short briefing followed by signature gathering in the surrounding neighborhood.

3) Protest racist laws in Arizona, Friday, 5/28, 2-5pm, Red Square, University of Washington, sponsored by MEChA

4) Northwest Folklife Festival, Saturday-Monday, May 29-31, at Seattle Center

5) SOS Neighborhood Outreach, Thursday, June 10, 6:30 pm, New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle
Meet up for a short briefing followed by signature gathering in the surrounding neighborhood.

6) Seattle LGBTQ Pride Parade and PrideFest, Sunday, June 27, Westlake Park to Seattle Cente

This is just the start! Stay tuned for more petition activities. Reply to this email to get specific times and meeting places.

Sisters Organize for Survival (SOS)
A grassroots campaign of Radical Women
New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S., Seattle
4 blocks south of S. Alaska St. at Hudson stop of #7 busline or a short walk east from the Columbia City light rail station.
206-722-6057 206-722-6057 • RWSeattle@mindspring.com • www.SaveBasicHealth.org

Endorsed by: Allyship; Democracy Insurgent; Dyke Community Activist; Freedom Socialist Party; National Lawyers Guild-Seattle; Olympia Single Payer Action; Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity; Political Staff Workers Union Local 1; POWER (Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights); Retired Public Employee Council, Chapter 3; Retired Public Employee Council, Chapter 28; Seattle OUTprotest; Sistah 2 Sistah; Social Justice Fund Northwest; Washington Federation of State Employee, Local 304; Alton McDonald; President and Founder New Century Justice Network; Patti Imani, home health care worker for the elderly; Lea Zengage, Justice Works**For identification only