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In this season of giving, let us be courageous as well as generous in investing in Washington’s future. Governor Jay Inslee’s new budget will be considered by the state legislature in January. It proposes billions of new dollars in spending for educating our kids and our college students, saving orcas from extinction and ourselves from opioid addiction, committing to human services and the behavioral health care system and combating climate change.

Paying to bring Washington into a civilized 21st century future depends on new taxes: enacting a capital gains tax, increasing the state bus...