Candidate for Congress. Conservative Republican. Fighting for affordability, safe communities, strong families, and the American Dream.
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Doug Basler retweeted
The Income tax is coming for you
-The law was so hastily and poorly written that enforcement is now in the hands of unelected bureaucrats
Two immediate effects according to tax consultants:
-If you own property in WA state and spend more than 30 days a year here you would be subject to the tax
-Giving to a WA state charity or non profit can be used to establish residency and subject you to the tax
Two excerpts:
“Who is domiciled in this state during the taxable year, unless the individual: (A) maintained no permanent place of abode in this state during the entire taxable year, maintained a permanent place of abode outside of this state during the entire taxable year, and spent in the aggregate not more than 30 days of the taxable year in this state”
“… “if I have a client that comes to me and (says) ‘I want to make sure that I've severed my Washington domicile and taken up a new domicile,’ we will tell them what the gold standard is and it would be to to cut all your ties to Washington including charitable contributions.”
It is already harming our economy, it will impact our social infrastructure, and they are hiring 300 enforcement personnel… why would they need that many people unless they are coming for everyone.
Vote Yes I-645 to Repeal the income tax
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Doug Basler retweeted
🚨THEY FILLED THE CAR WITH BALLOTS… AND SAID WHO WAS DOING IT
James O’Keefe’s undercover cameras caught it cold.
A ballot harvester in Minnesota shows the trunk and dashboard packed:
“You can see my car is full. All these here are absentee ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these. My car is full.”
300 in one haul.
When asked who fills them out: “People who work with Ilhan and other candidates… they work for them.”
Cash changes hands. Elders get visited. Blank or open ballots leave the building. Minnesota law limits how many you can carry. Federal law bans the pay-to-vote scheme. None of it mattered.
This is the same machine still fighting every single effort to require citizenship proof and clean the rolls. The same people who call election security “disenfranchisement.”
They never stopped. They just got quieter about the receipts.
Pass the SAVE Act.
Clean the rolls.
End the harvest.
The patriots are done pretending this is normal.
The Emerald City doesn’t need more taxes or excuses! Dougbasler.com
Doug Basler retweeted
The left’s war on Let’s Go Washington’s initiatives has officially begun
Signature gatherers are attacked, assaulted, have their signs stolen, tables vandalized & events disrupted. But nothing happens because the Democrats oppose the initiatives
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Doug Basler retweeted
The Republican Party’s Doug Basler has just entered the race for Washington state’s ninth Congressional District, recently publicly declaring:
“With the entrance of the socialist candidate from Seattle, many of our local folks have approached me with the request that I run again for US Congress."
Sometimes politicians in both parties of the billionaires say the quiet part out loud. Basler has since quickly moved to delete this statement from his website. But the motivation of the establishment is still clear: to try to block our independent socialist campaign by any means necessary.
Basler and the Republican Party are clearly not running to try to defeat Democratic incumbent Adam Smith. Why would they, when Adam Smith has been such a dogged representative of the war profiteers, Zionist lobby, and the billionaire class? As one right-wing commenter remarked, “Smith sounds more like a Republican than a lot of Republicans.” For the Republican Party, this is not about defeating neoliberal warmonger Smith. No Republican has broken 30 percent of the vote against Smith in 15 years, including Basler himself, who has previously run against Smith many times.
But my revolutionary socialist campaign is enough of a threat to both the Republican and Democratic parties that they need strategies to try to stop us. My campaign is fighting to win free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich, for an end to all military aid to Israel and end all weapons and tech for imperialist war, to shut down ICE and the detention centers, and for national rent control. We have won tremendous support from working people, and have seven times as many donors as Adam Smith, with over $525,000 raised already.
It’s in this context that Basler has been recruited to the Republican ticket, and the two weaker Republican candidates who had previously entered the race have dropped out. This strategy conveniently leaves Basler, a high-profile Republican, in the race as the sole recipient of the GOP vote.
Both parties regularly collude to block working-class candidates by electoral maneuvers. In 2020, the Democratic leadership, led by Obama, worked to push several corporate Democrats out of the race in the run up to Super Tuesday while leaving Elizabeth Warren in to divide the vote with Bernie Sanders — a successful coup that put Joe Biden on top despite the total lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy.
This move to retain Basler as the lone Republican candidate is yet another reminder that both parties are determinedly united in keeping any working-class challenge out of Congress.
The billionaires are nervous because our campaign comes from the long track record of winning unheard-of working-class victories, from the nation’s highest minimum wage to the Amazon Tax to unprecedented renters’ rights. Both parties represent American imperialism and are united in their opposition to serious antiwar candidates.
This is why we need working people to get involved and strongly support our campaign. Let’s not fall for the political theater of Democratic and Republican parties posing as mortal enemies. They each want to win elections against each other. But they BOTH represent the ruling class and they are BOTH enemies of the working class. And they are in complete agreement on the priority of trying to block an independent socialist from getting into Congress.
We need to go all out to win this election. DONATE and VOLUNTEER for my campaign today at kshamasawant.org.
Winning this election would be a historic step towards building a new party for the working class, and would deal a gigantic blow to Wall Street and both parties of war and genocide.
