Washington’s House Finance Committee meets TOMORROW MORNING to discuss legislation that would fund healthcare, housing, and education in Washington. This is our final call for you to register your support by 7am tomorrow for avoiding drastic cuts by making the wealthy pay what they owe. Can we count on you to sign in PRO on these bills?

Here is what’s on the table:

• HB 2046 would raise $4 billion for schools with a tax on the super-rich (about 4,300 mega-millionaires) with more than $50 million in stocks and bonds.

• HB 2045 would raise $2 billion for education, public safety and other critical services with a tax on the state’s biggest most profitable corporations with $250 million+ annual profits.

In today’s Seattle Times, columnist Danny Westneat wrote about a well-known conservative UW economics professor who called Washington a ‘tax haven like the Cayman Islands’ for the super-rich. It’s true, Washington is one of the worst in the nation when it comes to making our mega-millionaires and billionaires pay their share. That’s not a reputation we want.

Across the political spectrum, the consensus is growing that we need to fix our upside down tax code. Thank you for taking action to fix it!

Libby