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WA state sales tax revenue did decline during the great recession, but since then it's grown[1] pretty dramatically. The state's 4 year budget forecast shows steadily increasing revenues, the issue that's creating the deficit is rising costs from programs that have already been written into law. My sense is that it's not easy to accurately forecast what a new government program will cost many years into the future.
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