WA's budget is in bad enough shape that the previous (D) gov tried to impose drastic cuts to long-term services and supports that keep people with disabilities out of nursing homes. Disability rights advocates fought the cuts in court and won. Then the gov considered appealing to SCOTUS -- which would have allowed the Roberts Court to review Olmstead v. L.C., the 1999 decision that states that living in the community (not an institution) is a civil right. 
Jerry Brown here in CA made similar cuts, which have also been blocked by the courts. So neither state is exactly setting the world on fire. Of course, the lack of an income tax isn't the only culprit. Microsoft managed to get WA's royalty tax slashed by two-thirds. Seems the head of the Senate budget committee is an ex-Microsoft manager who presumably owns bundles of MSFT stock. 
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