{"id":284,"date":"2026-01-31T01:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/?p=284"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:31:07","slug":"washingtons-illegal-income-tax-sb-5978-violates-the-constitution-and-will-crush-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/washingtons-illegal-income-tax-sb-5978-violates-the-constitution-and-will-crush-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington\u2019s Illegal Income Tax? SB 5978 Violates the Constitution and Will Crush Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Washington\u2019s Illegal Income Tax? SB 5978 Violates the Constitution and Will Crush Small Businesses\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rEDHJB3koNU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode of Behind the Wire on Rebel Radio, host Robert Burwell breaks down Washington State\u2019s proposed income tax, Senate Bill 5978, and why it is unconstitutional, illegal, and economically destructive. SB 5978 directly violates the Washington State Constitution\u2019s uniformity clause, ignores voter-approved law banning income taxes, and relies on an activist Supreme Court to rubber-stamp unconstitutional policy. Burwell explains how this so-called \u201cmillionaires tax\u201d will inevitably expand to everyone, devastate small businesses, drive jobs out of Washington, and raise prices for working families through higher costs passed on to consumers. This episode exposes the political deception behind SB 5978, the history of tax creep in Washington, and why unconstitutional taxation is one of the greatest threats to affordability, economic freedom, and individual liberty in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#RebelRadio #BehindTheWire #WashingtonPolitics #SB5978 #Unconstitutional #IncomeTax #TaxationIsTheft #StateConstitution #UniformityClause #SmallBusiness #EconomicFreedom #AffordabilityCrisis #GovernmentOverreach #ActivistCourts #VoterDeception #DefendTheConstitution #LibertyOverTyranny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington\u2019s Illegal Income Tax? SB 5978 Violates the Constitution and Will Crush Small Businesses<br \/>\n#RebelRadio #BehindTheWire #WashingtonPolitics #SB5978 #Unconstitutional #IncomeTax #TaxationIsTheft #StateConstitution #UniformityClause #SmallBusiness #EconomicFreedom #AffordabilityCrisis #GovernmentOverreach #ActivistCourts #VoterDeception #DefendTheConstitution #LibertyOverTyranny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,238,77],"tags":[245,251,250,257,252,253,45,248,255,246,240,249,247,256,243,242,254,239,241,244],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rebel-radio-wa3-podcast","category-taxes","category-washington-politics","tag-activist-judges","tag-affordability-crisis-washington","tag-bo-tax-washington","tag-conservative-constitutional-analysis","tag-cost-of-living-washington-state","tag-economic-freedom","tag-government-overreach","tag-income-tax-expansion","tag-initiative-2111","tag-millionaire-tax-washington","tag-sb-5978","tag-small-business-taxes","tag-tax-creep","tag-taxation-policy-analysis","tag-unconstitutional-tax","tag-uniformity-clause","tag-voter-approved-income-tax-ban","tag-washington-income-tax","tag-washington-state-constitution","tag-washington-supreme-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wa3percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/file_000000001b087230a998052b0fcee6b1_copy_506x337.png?fit=506%2C337&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa3percent.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}