“Here's the problem. How do you cut something from a new tax that's never been? You can't call it a cut. If we don't pass this income tax, we are cutting a very small percentage of future spending increases.”
Chicks on The Right - Conservative Politics & Culture Commentary · US Politics · November 2026
Context
He is describing the fight over Washington State's new income tax on millionaires. He objects to the voter pamphlet saying services would be cut if the tax failed, since a tax that doesn't exist yet can't be cut.
Transcript
You were like, yeah, I, I know that's crazy, right? Politicians, that's conspiratorial.
It totally is.
They never lie.
No, here in the state, that was one of the things that was shocking is like, even if you went to the voter pamphlet, the way they describe the bill in the voter pamphlet is 100% lies. So like they listed out these services will get cut. Okay, here's the problem. How do you cut something? from a new…
So they're like, because it's a new tax.
And so they're saying, if we shoot this tax down, we're lobbying for a big tax cut.
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