About Concerned Taxpayers.

Concerned Taxpayers of Washington State formed in the summer of 2018 following the outrageously irresponsible efforts of Seattle politicians and activists to impose the following taxes:

Overwhelming public pressure led to a hasty repeal of the “Head Tax” by city council members even before its implementation, but numerous business and community leaders understood their sordid assault on working families as only the beginning. They were quickly proven correct when radical activists gathered enough signatures to place Initiative 1631 — promoting a “carbon tax” — on the November ballot. Co-currently, a coalition of entities pooled support for a ballot measure offering Washington voters the chance to halt future taxes on grocery items in Seattle and other localities via Initiative 1634.

Among stakeholders alarmed by advancing taxation, a handful assumed leadership to communicate the narrative of runaway taxation written by radical Seattle politicians to voters during the November 2018 elections. Far from the the brainchild of disparate parties, these taxes and efforts to tax comprise an interconnected strategy by far-left leaders and operatives to circumvent the state constitutional prohibition on income taxation, with an eventual goal of selling an income tax to the voting public as a “simpler” alternative to various punitive consumption and property taxes that these same individuals imposed in the first place.

Someone needed to step up and frame the situation in this way, and Concerned Taxpayers of Washington State formed in response. The organization launched an ad campaign in support of Initiative 1634 and opposition to 1631. While Concerned Taxpayers cannot claim sole credit for resounding victories in both objectives, they confirm the relevance of its mission. Working families and businesses in Washington State consistently and decisively oppose politicians’ efforts to further burden the local economy with new taxation.