GREGOIRE IS USING GIMMICK PLAYS EARLY THIS CAMPAIGN

SHE HAS CALLED THE "EMERGENCY" SESSION!
Not only is the former AG playing politics with her I -747 Special Session, it now appears that she is adding something new. A tax Deferral for all wage earners under the States Median Wage. On the surface that sounds great as many people in Whatcom County earn well below the State's Median Income. Boy, is she gonna stick it to the rich.
Notwithstanding the confusion, If the average wage earner and his wage earning wife consider the merits of this here are some thoughts they may have.
Do we count both wages or does only one wage earner qualify us for the tax deferral?
Or do we combine our wages?
How much paperwork would we be required to file, and would it be quarterly or annually?
Is this a Tax break, or if it is a deferral, when are the taxes deferred to?
Will I pay all those deferred taxes when one or both of us meets or exceeds the median wage?
These are the self- interested questions that I might ask.
More importantly, as this is not so much a mean average but a multi -modal average, some counties will be devastated and forced to address the issue of raising taxes themselves in other ways. Whatcom County is notorious for saying, "we haven't raised your taxes in a decade or more." No, they keep raising sales taxes and reassessing our homes higher than market value.
The acting Governor can't just keep it simple, even when pandering to the average taxpayer. She has to continue to add a tax deferral that some are already calling a tax break. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for Liberty from taxes. But I'm not for voting ourselves gifts from the taxpayers coffers.
This is setting the stage for the pure old fashioned class warfare campaign issues as she is "protecting the poor, and lowering the taxes for the poor and sticking it too the wealthy."
The challenge is how to stop this play before it gets to the line of scrimmage and gain any real traction. Because if her policy is implemented, the poison pill will kill the middle class. I hope that our minority of Republican Senators and representatives can sack her before she gets an open field run.
On the other hand, she must be scared of Alaskan Native Dino Rossi to be playing these gimmick plays so early in the game.