Some good news: Eyman's I-747 ruled unconstitutional

[flamingyouth]

OLYMPIA -- The state Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Initiative 747, a Tim Eyman property-tax limit, is unconstitutional.

Voters approved the measure in 2001 to cap property tax increases at 1 percent a year.

In a 5-4 ruling, the high court said that while the interests of initiative proponents are important, the law requires voters "from being misled as to its effect on existing law."

"A voter reading the text of the initiative could believe that he or she was voting to reduce the property tax limit by 1 percent instead of by 5 percent, a substantially different impact on the public coffers, as well as the perceived benefit to the individual voter's purse," the majority, led by Justice Bobbe Bridge, wrote.

But dissenting justices wrote that "no reasonable argument can be sustained that voters were in any way misled or confused by the effect of I-747, which expressly and was specifically aimed at lowering the tax growth to 1 percent."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/338833_tax09.html

I wish he'd move.

[merwin]

1. Eyman's a douche.

I wish he'd more than just leave, as I wouldn't wish his presence on any other city/state in this nation.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Better yet, I wish he'd leave the country. n/t

[flamingyouth]

5. COLONIZE MARS NOW!!!!111

START WITH HIM!!!11

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. What are the chances that I-960 will meet the same fate?

Most of I-man's initiatives have been ruled unconstitutional (until they get passed by our idiot legislators anyway.)

[flamingyouth]

4. I'd like to think they're pretty good.

My eyes glazed over reading it, but the part about limiting the amount of information in the Voter's Guide was a red flag to me.

[Buzz cook]

6. I just saw it on the news

Poor Timmy was on crying about how local governments were going to raise property taxes by %30.

Mixing capitalism and referendums is a silly idea. That a guy can make big bucks by working the initiative process is just way wrong.