Drew Stokesbary

They were there in support of the millionaires tax.

And then on the other side, you had minority leader for the House, Drew Stokesbary, who represents Auburn, and co- uh, the founder of Let's Go Washington, the ones behind Initiative 645, the repeal of the income tax, uh, Brian Haywood, who was there.

So it was two and two, uh, on the stage with that moderator, uh, from KOMO.

Now, in this first clip, this is that Dr. Soleil Boyd, and I-- forgive me if I'm saying her name wrong, um, who argued the income tax is necessary, she said, to balance Washington's regressive tax code and create what she called a more fair tax system.

That's gonna go down slightly because of what the millionaires tax will do.

It will take the tax, the sales tax off of certain items, hygiene, diapers, other things, and that could be about 200 bucks back in the pocket of a low-income family.

Now, Minority Leader Drew Stokesbary said that Olympia's spending addiction is the real problem here, noting the massive explosion in the size of the state budget just since he's been there.

I think he said 12 years he's been in Olympia, and it went from, like, 30 billion up to $80 billion in that short dozen years.