The Latest: Judge strikes down Eyman tax initiative
Jan 21, 2016, 11:12 AM | Updated: Sep 30, 2024, 11:25 am
Tim Eyman's legal troubles continue. AP)
SEATTLE (AP) A judge says Tim Eyman’s latest anti-tax measure is unconstitutional and void in its entirety.
King County Superior Court Judge William Downing issued his ruling on Initiative 1366 on Thursday. The measure, approved by voters in November, would have cut the sales tax by one percentage point, beginning in April, unless the Legislature allows a public vote on an amendment that would require a two-thirds supermajority for future tax increases.
Opponents, including two Democratic lawmakers and the League of Women Voters of Washington, sued, saying constitutional amendments can’t be proposed by initiative and the measure violates the rule that initiatives be limited to a single subject.
But lawyers for Eyman and for the state, which is defending the voter-approved measure, responded that I-1366 was legal.
The ruling is expected to be appealed.
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