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How did your lawmaker vote on tax increases?
Posted by Kate Riley
This year, a majority of the state Legislature voted to suspend Initiative 960. Enacted in 2007, the law required a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to raise taxes and that, when lawmakers vote to raise taxes, their votes are included int eh voters' pamphlet.
The suspension of I-960 paved the way for the Legislature to approve tax increases of about $800 million without a supermajority and the transparency voters desired.
This chart reveals how lawmakers in King and Snohomish County voted on final passage of the I-960 repeal and the two largest tax measures.
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