The Seattle PI this morning offers an endorsement of our proposal for creation of a tax transparency website. From the article (in-part):

"The Legislature and the governor recently moved the state into a new era of budget transparency with a law creating a searchable Web site detailing state spending. The state should advance its impressive digital empowerment of the public by giving everyone access to the same type of information about his or her state and local taxes.

The Washington Policy Center last week unveiled a proposal to create 'a tax transparency Web site' allowing individuals and businesses to figure out just how much they are paying in all local and state taxes . . .

The center's Jason Mercier, who wrote the new proposal and helped inspire the spending Web site, called complete, searchable online taxing a 'natural next step' for the state in its efforts to be more transparent about financial issues. Like the spending idea, this plan ought to have bipartisan appeal. Whether one tends to think we have too few services or too many taxes, there is broad common ground on the value of accurate information for making good decisions . . .

Lawmakers and the governor should move quickly next year to take another big step forward in our high-tech state's use of technology to improve public understanding of the public's business."