Income tax in disguise

Sun., March 31, 2019

Gov. Inslee stuck his nose under the state income tax tent with the Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) tax, which is to be paid based on employer payrolls starting January 1, 2019.

This gives Olympia politicians and bureaucrats access to employer payroll information for the first time, which can be a future source of funding for programs such as Medicare for All, mass transit, unemployment/unwilling to work, Green New Deal, etc.

Hopefully those programs will be better implemented than PFML because Quickbooks hasn’t been able to figure it out and is telling employers to calculate it by hand. Employers can either deduct the employee portion from their employees’ paychecks or pay it themselves. I’m sure it will not be passed on to consumers.

Michael Helland

Elk

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