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Annual Link light rail boardings, boardings recorded without fare media, fare revenue, operating expenses and farebox recovery, compiled from Sound Transit's annual Fare Revenue Reports, with FactHub's derived fare-media share and an estimate of fare revenue not collected compared with the 2019 rate.
Lifetime WA Cares payroll premiums (0.58% of all wages) for workers at different wage levels, compared with the program's $36,500 maximum lifetime benefit, both as simple inflation-adjusted totals and as present values, using the economic assumptions in the state actuary's 2024 valuation. Includes break-even wages under alternative assumptions, outcomes at points of Washington's 2025 wage distribution, and the program rules the calculation uses.
Every factual claim in the official arguments for and against Washington Initiative 645 in the 2026 state voters' pamphlet, quoted verbatim with its heading, plus the governor's release that first used the 460,000-families figure. FactHub fact checks cite these statements so each rating rests on the campaign's exact words.
Final and enacted Washington operating-budget appropriations (Near General Fund and all funds) and NGF-O revenue by biennium, with population, consumer-price, government-price and personal-income benchmarks; spending above the population x inflation benchmark by area and program; maintenance-level vs. policy steps; estimated revenue from post-2013 tax legislation; K-12 district revenue by source; a NASBO cross-state comparison; and attributed statements on budget growth.
IRS Statistics of Income data on Washington returns with AGI of $1 million or more (with U.S. data for the years Washington's class is missing), Washington's general fund revenue by source, and FactHub's illustrative back-cast and crash scenarios for a 9.9% tax on income above $1 million.
Top statutory state individual income tax rates for the ten highest-rate jurisdictions plus Washington, from the Tax Foundation's 2026 table and state law as of October 21, 2026; Washington's rank among the 50 states once ESSB 6346 takes effect in 2028; effective (average) state income tax for married couples with $1.5 million, $2 million and $5 million of wages in Washington, Oregon, California and Massachusetts; and the components of the Tax Foundation's 18.037% combined Seattle rate on wages.
Eighteen comparisons of an official (or, for one row, independent) revenue estimate with the revenue later collected or officially re-estimated, for ten state and local taxes on high incomes enacted between 2004 and 2025: California Propositions 30 and 63, the Massachusetts 4% surtax, New York's 2009 surcharge, Maryland's 2008-10 millionaire bracket, Oregon Measure 66, Multnomah County's Preschool for All tax, Metro's Supportive Housing Services tax, and Washington's capital gains tax and 2.9% surcharge. A second table lists published estimates of how much behavioral responses reduced (or were expected to reduce) such revenue, and the behavioral assumption in Washington's 2026 income-tax estimate.
IRS Statistics of Income figures for Washington returns with adjusted gross income of $500,000 to $1 million and $1 million or more (tax years 2019-2022), including joint returns, wages, pensions, IRA distributions, taxable Social Security, pass-through income and charitable deductions; the recorded votes on 13 floor amendments to ESSB 6346 (2026); worked examples of the tax for ten illustrative households under the law as enacted; and a projection of paying households under the law's every-other-year inflation adjustment.
Net collections of Washington's capital gains excise tax for tax years 2022-2025, the share paid by the 10 largest payments and the top tenth of payments, and the Department of Revenue's pre-enactment estimates, compiled from DOR and OFM documents.
IRS counts of Washington tax returns reporting $1 million or more (2019-2022), Washington capital gains tax collections (tax years 2022-2025), the share of Washington households expected to pay the 2026 millionaires tax, and a projection of the real value of the tax's $1 million standard deduction under the indexing formula in ESSB 6346 section 316.
Contributions reported to the Washington Public Disclosure Commission by the committee opposing Initiative 645 (No on 645), the committee supporting it (Vote Yes Repeal the Income Tax), and Let's Go Washington, which backed I-645 and two other 2026 measures. Donors are grouped by type, with labor organizations split by whether their members are mostly public employees. Also includes Let's Go Washington's 2026 spending on I-645 and Brian Heywood's own contributions, union contributions to the legislators who voted on ESSB 6346, and the state cost of four 2025-27 union contracts.
118 news, broadcast, opinion and editorial stories about Washington's I-645 (repeal of the 9.9% tax on income over $1 million) from 26 outlets, published June 1 to Oct 21, 2026, each coded with one codebook for sourcing balance, unchecked campaign claims, omitted key facts, terminology and factual errors. Includes summary tables by outlet group and a blind second-coder reliability check.
Every 'For transfer to the state general fund' line in the final transfer sections of Washington's operating budgets for 2021-23, 2023-25 and 2025-27 (plus the 2019-21 list as amended in 2021), with source account, fiscal-year amounts, category and the verbatim budget text, and every transfer out of the general fund. Built to test the I-645 Voters' Pamphlet statement that Olympia moved money from dedicated accounts to the general fund 80 times in five years.
Every official estimate of what Washington's 9.9% tax on income over $1 million (ESSB 6346, 2026) would raise, by state fiscal year: the Legislature's fiscal note, the Economic and Revenue Forecast Council's June and September 2026 forecasts, and OFM's fiscal impact statement for Initiative 645, plus how the enacted 2027-29 budget outlook counts the revenue and the campaign statements that cite these figures.
Taxable value of a passenger vehicle, as a percentage of its base MSRP, by year of service under the depreciation schedule Sound Transit's motor vehicle excise tax (MVET) uses now and under the 2006 schedule in RCW 82.44.035 that state law says must replace it after the pre-2015 bonds are repaid. Includes a worked example for a $30,000 car at the 1.1% combined rate.
How much Seattle's JumpStart payroll expense tax raised each year, what the city expected it to raise, and how much each adopted budget sent to the General Fund and to affordable housing, from the City Budget Office's adopted and proposed budget books, with the 2020 spending-plan percentages for comparison.
