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For more information on any of these projects, please contact us! (Note: Many of these projects are funding dependant)

The Economic Policy Center

Building a more efficient and accountable state budget, advocating reduced taxation and regulations.

Budget Watch (monitoring porkbarrel spending)
Pork Haven (radio commentary on government waste)
Stewardship Series
That’s the Best/Dumbest Idea We’ve Heard (website contest)
Initiative analysis
Unemployment Insurance (examine/offer alternatives to high costs; draft short and long range policy plan for change)
Growth Management Act (How has the law performed? Personal stories; cost; suggestions for changes)
Gridlock! Solutions for Transportation/Performance-Based Budgets

The Education Reform Center
Emphasizes change child-centered education where: (1) parents choose child’s best educational opportunities, 2) dollars follow child to school, 3) excessive regulations and expensive bureaucracies are eliminated.

The Resource Bank (providing educational research/alternatives)
Cyberschools
Making the Grade? (analysis of current student testing system)

Health, Welfare & Cultural Studies
Consumer-based reforms that allow individuals to choose health care, short-term assistance, and retirement options that make sense for them.

Health Care Reform (defined contributions model: develop short and long-range strategies; model legislation; small workshops)
Defined Contribution Conference (for employers, industry people and policymakers)

Governance & Citizenship
Guarding against inappropriate governmental practices that threaten freedom; teaching citizens (youth) to know, appreciate, and participate in government.

E Pluribus Unum Monograph–adult version
E Pluribus Classroom Program
Teachers’ Paycheck Protection Project

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Evergreen Freedom Foundation
P.O. Box 552, Olympia, WA 98507
Phone: (360) 956-3482, Fax: (360) 352-1874
Email: effwa@effwa.org

Election Reform

Grassroots Washington

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1 Part Honesty; 2 Parts Arrogance

At a March 23, 2005, House Appropriations hearing on a bill to gut the voter-approved I-601 spending limit, Rep. Jim McIntire (D) asked a supporter of I-601’s two-third supermajority requirement for the legislature to raise taxes the following question:

"Can you name a time when we [legislators] have actually not just set it [supermajority requirement] aside by majority vote? I mean, this is in many respects a procedural motion that has no bearing. It’s a statutory constraint that cannot constrain any legislature that chooses as a majority to set it aside . . . have we ever used a supermajority [to raise taxes]?"

- Rep. Jim McIntire (D - 46)
(360) 786-7886

Despite the arrogance of some state officials, Washington's constitution is clear: "All political power is inherent in the people..."

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