McKenna Refines Position on Tax Increases and Collective Bargaining
Last week Attorney General Rob McKenna did an interview with TVW’s Austin Jenkins discussing his positions as a candidate for Governor. Among the policies discussed were McKenna’s position on tax increases, whether the voter-approved 2/3 vote requirement for tax increases is constitutional and if the state is fully taking advantage of opportunities for competitive contracting.
Here is the video of that interview queued up to the conversation on those three issues:
Cliff notes version: No tax increases, 2/3 is constitutional and state is not utilizing competitive contracting enough.
Jason Mercier is Director of the Center for Government Reform at Washington Policy Center. He serves on the Executive Committee of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force and is the private sector chairman of ALEC’s Fiscal Federalism Working Group. He is a contributing editor of the Heartland Institute’s Budget & Tax News, a columnist for SeattlePostGlobe.org, serves on the board of the Washington Coalition for Open Government, and was an advisor to the 2002 Washington State Tax Structure Committee. In June 2010, Governor Gregoire appointed Jason as WPC’s representative on her Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Panel. Jason holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Washington State University.
Be the first to write a comment.