Business executives, take note: Most Washington voters want to balance the state budget with new progressive revenue

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not cuts

A robust majority of Washington voters agree with the Balance Our Tax Code coalition that the state should address its current fiscal challenges primarily by levying new taxes on the wealthy and large corporations, rather than with devastating cuts to public services, the Northwest Progressive Institute’s most recent statewide poll has found.

57% of 621 likely 2025 voters surveyed last month by Civiqs for NPI said they preferred BOTC’s revenue-focused approach to tackling the state’s budget shortfall, while only 34% preferred the slash spending approach articulated by the Association of Washington Business (AWB) and other business lobbies. 9% said they were not sure.

NPI is a proud member of Balance Our Tax Code (BOTC) which is a coalition consisting of many organizations working together to build a better, stronger, more inclusive Washington. BOTC members lobby for the public interest (what’s collectively good for everyone) rather than their own self interest (e.g. the corporate bottom line.)

Our question laid out both AWB’s arguments in their own words as well as our side’s arguments. We then asked respondents to specify which they found more compelling.

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https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/04/business-executives-take-note-most-washington-voters-want-to-balance-the-state-budget-with-new-progressive-revenue-not-cuts.html

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1. Yet Ferguson is hell-bent on retaining our current tax code

For a "blue" state we sure have taxes all wrong



Compare to red state Kansas, which is the median in the rankings