According to the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's list of Big Spenders, Senator Claudia Kauffman is now one of the most expensive legislators in Olympia, with over $2 billion in new taxes and fees proposed this year.
She now joins the company of the fiscally reckless Maralyn Chase, Adam Kline, and Jeanne Kohl-Wells.
The list is compiled by EFF from the fiscal notes produced by the state Office of Financial Management as a result of Initiative 960 which requires the state to keep track of the ten-year cost of all proposed legislation.