As of Friday afternoon, the Washington State Supreme Court has ruled that the citizens of the state are able to change the way their government raises their taxes.
As I’ve posted about here, here, here and here, there is a Citizen’s Initiative #960 coming to the ballot this fall that would mandate a legislative supermajority in each of the state’s houses before the legislature could raise taxes.
A fringe leftist group calling themselves Futurewise and the Service Employees Union Int’l filed suit in King County Superior Court to try and block it’s ascension to the ballot and lost. They then filed an “emergency motion for accelerated review” by the WSSC, which was accepted by the Justices.
After hearing arguments on Thursday, the Justices issued their ruling the following day that basically stated the Initiative would be on the ballot this November.
Futurewise, the SEIU and local dipshit Dems are trying to call citizen restriction of government “unconstitutional” and “out of the scope of the initiative process” and that has been their argument in front of both courts to try and keep the citizens of Washington State from being able to vote on it.
They know that they won’t be able to tax people to death if this passes, so they don’t even want the citizenry to get a look at in the voting booth.
How sad for them that their pro-government ways were foiled by their favorite form of legislative “reform”, the courts.
They’d better hope THEY are “Out of the Scope” of citizen action…..