Cindy Ryu

And so, you know, like Amy Wall and I'm just scrolling down really quick to see some of the D on D races and stuff like if you're in the 29th district.

i i hate to say it because she votes for a lot of things i don't like but melanie morgan she's the better choice of the two democrats in that district in the 48th district position two for state house amy wallen you cannot leave that race blank oh my gosh for the love of god and then state senate 32nd district it's jesse solomon versus cindy ryu who's the one who said she wants an income tax on families making 250 000 a year So if you're in the 32nd, you got to fill in the box, the little circle for Jesse Solomon people.

So go read my voter guide.

And then just for fun, I have in the 23rd district position one Daria Ilgin, who's running against Tara Simmons.

So they're going to have to seek revenue from elsewhere.

What are the options? Well, they can do what I think they're going to do and lower the threshold of the income tax to apply to families making over $250,000 a year, as State Representative Cindy Ryu already suggested that they would.

And in combination with that, they've been thinking about a statewide payroll tax for years.

They've been threatening it for years.

The polling on the issue shows that support for repealing the tax jumps way up if people expect that it will eventually be expanded to more income brackets.

And, you know, as you know well, Libby, a few Democrats have given kind of just enough daylight for opponents of the tax, like Cindy Ryu in our debate that you moderated.

Was that just last week? Time? Oh.

I think that was last week.

Really? I mean, do you really need more than a million dollars to live well in Washington state?

That's Democratic Representative Cindy Ryu.

She's running for a state Senate seat in Shoreline, and she thinks that this tax doesn't go far enough.

The law currently says 10 cents of every dollar over a million should go to the state.

Six months after Governor Bob Ferguson signed SB6346, his party is openly bidding against itself.

Representative Cindy Ryu wants the tax to start at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Senator Jesse Salomon counters with seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

The current one million dollar standard exemption is already treated as temporary.

Now, I'm hopeful that this next clip I'm going to play you will finally be the thing that breaks through whatever sort of indoctrination that you've been led to believe that this won't become an income tax on everyone.

Because now, on the record, days before ballots go out, Democratic State Representative Cindy Ryu is admitting that the goal is to tax the income of families that make $250,000 a year or more.

Polling shows that lowering the income threshold significantly reduces public support for the tax.

What level of household incomes do you think should be taxed, and what is your pitch to voters who worry about being squeezed by more taxes?

And then it'll survive an initiative.

We'll run a bunch of dishonest ads," which they're doing, "and then when that all blows over, then we'll come back and say, 'Gosh, we don't have enough money anymore.

We gotta lower the threshold,' and they'll lower it to half a million." And then, as State Rep Cindy Ryu says, $250,000.

And that's not the first time that figure has come up, and she says...

At issue is whether to expand the tax to lower income thresholds.

Cindy Ryu serves in the State House of Representatives and used to be mayor of Shoreline.

If elected to state Senate, she says she's open to significantly lowering the income tax threshold.

Let's look at about $250,000.