What a garbage article. There's not even any substance to disagree with. Why is this on HN? Because it uses Bill Gates as the representative of a progressive in

What a garbage article. There's not even any substance to disagree with. Why is this on HN? Because it uses Bill Gates as the representative of a progressive income tax? Washington state is hamstrung by its constitution, which forbids an income tax. As a result, this "progressive" state has one of the most regressive tax systems in the country. Washington is also hamstrung by knee-jerk anti-tax grifters in the mold of Grover Norquist (our local guy is Tim Eyman, a man who made the news recently for stealing a chair from Office Depot because he thought nobody was looking, and is now running for governor).