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By Sen. Mark Schoesler
9th Legislative District 

Concerns about new long-term care tax

 

August 19, 2021



Mr. Ed Schweitzer, who founded and leads Pullman-based Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, recently pointed out how the new long-term care tax will have an extra-bitter taste for people who call Idaho home but work in our state, in border cities like Clarkston or Pullman.

Those include a significant number of SEL's employee-owners, he wrote in a letter to Gov. Inslee, who will be forced to pay the tax but can never benefit from it if they don't reside in Washington.

His letter also details other known, serious flaws with what's called the Washington Cares Fund.

They include the finding b...



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