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System not so strange, yet

The Spokesman-Review

I found the April 23 editorial claiming that Washington had one of the strangest tax codes in the country to be quite strange in itself. I spent most of my working career living in two of those so-called strange states without state income taxes – Texas and Wyoming. They did quite well, thank you.

Based on research I did some five to 10 years ago, I specifically chose to semi-retire in Washington state because of its tax codes and conservative government spending decisions. Washington state used to get along just fine.

Let’s first figure out what happened before jumping from the frying pan into the fire and becoming what I consider to be a truly strange state by invoking a state income tax.

Larry Messinger

Spokane

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