PLF STATEMENT ON TODAY’S COURT RULING IN
SEATTLE INCOME TAX CASE (ruling attached to this
email)
Pacific Legal Foundation represents several Seattle residents in challenging Seattle’s
income tax. Our lead counsel on the case, PLF Senior Attorney Brian T. Hodges,
issued this statement on today’s ruling:

“Today’s ruling is a victory for all taxpayers in Seattle and
throughout the state, and for everyone who values the rule of law,”
said Brian T. Hodges, a senior attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation
who represents several Seattle residents in challenging the tax.
“Seattle politicians billed their plan as a ‘wealth tax,’ but it’s
ultimately aimed just as much at the middle class and even the
poor. By subverting constitutional protections against
discriminatory tax schemes, their strategy was to pave the way for
more taxes, on more people, at all income levels. They also sought
to undermine the fundamental principle that your income is your
property, protected by constitutional safeguards for property
rights. The court performed a service for all taxpayers, and all
property owners, by defeating the city’s strategy to undermine their
rights.”