“Keep it simple.” This old saying is more than a bumper sticker slogan, it’s a principle that is especially important when it comes to taxes and regulations.
Washington employers have been working for decades to simplify our state’s tax and regulatory policies. Currently, employers must work their way through a maze of complex, overlapping and often contradictory regulations and tax rules that differ from one city to the next, one county to the next.
In 1992, Bill Clinton’s campaign slogan was, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
In 1993, Washington employers modified the slogan to, “It’s the economy, don’t kill it,” and emblazoned it across a huge banner draped from AWB’s building near the state’s capitol campus, where it could be seen by elected officials driving by.
The confrontation between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and state employees has focused the nation’s attention on government unions. With the…
Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. That’s particularly true in these tough economic times, as “business as usual” no longer works.
The hardest thing an employer has to do is to call someone into the office and tell them the business isn’t making enough money to keep them on.
State lawmakers convening in Olympia are looking under every pebble for new money.
Remember the old saying – the only things certain in life are death and taxes?
Both Washingtons are in a financial bind. In our nation’s capital, President Obama and Congress are running trillion-dollar budget deficits and our national debt will soon exceed $14 trillion.
Electric cars are the new wave in automobile technology.
Even though voters rejected Initiative 1082, which would have allowed private insurers to write workers’ compensation insurance in our state, the need to reform the system has become even greater.
For too many Americans, the last three Thanksgivings have been pretty lean. Our nation is suffering from the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression.
In 1992, a single male sockeye salmon managed to swim 900 miles from the mouth of the Columbia River to…
The question Washington voters should ask themselves before voting on a state income tax this fall is, “Will we be…
