Democrats float higher taxes ahead of session

Washington voters have rejected state income tax proposals 10 times. But Democrats still haven't gotten the message.

Sen. Noel Frame of Seattle, who serves with me on the Senate Ways and Means Committee, has become the latest Democrat to push the idea of a state income tax. She's also behind the Democrats' multi-year effort to treat certain investments as taxable property – meaning you would get taxed simply for owning them, just like a piece of land.

As reported by the media, Frame said during a Nov. 12 panel discussion that she's "heard more chatter about the income tax in the last six month...