This editorial will appear in tomorrow’s print edition.
Washington voters are an independent lot. There’s no way to put a party label on the way they voted on Tuesday’s ballot measures.
As they’ve demonstrated time and time again, they don’t like taxes and will repeal them, shrink them or prevent them almost every chance they get.
By approving Initiative 1053 almost two-to-one (as of Thursday), Washingtonians emphatically forbade the Legislature from enacting any new tax without either a two-thirds supermajority in both the House and Senate, or a vote of the people. The clear message: Don’t even think about squeezing …
