"Dedicated" tax and user-fees need real protections

During her 2011 State of the State Address Governor Gregoire said, "Let's adopt a user pays policy so that when only a few benefit from the service, they pay for it." This market-based government funding policy received a lot of attention at the Governor's Budget Transformation Committee meetings which I participated in. Here is idea number 34 from the Committee's non-consensus report . . . READ MORE