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Huge revenue increase … Washington’s quarterly revenue forecast in June showed yet another huge increase in tax revenue. This is $2.6 billion more than was previously expected when lawmakers wrote the 2021-23 budget earlier this year. We now have $2.6 billion reasons for lawmakers to finally provide broad-based tax relief to Washingtonians. While the majority party in our state was busy imposing an unconstitutional capital gains income tax this year, lawmakers across the country were instead working to provide significant tax relief as revenue projections nationally rebounded from previous concerns related to the COVID economic restrictions. Consider these recent tax cut headlines from our neighbors: ....