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RIP: family leave, family tax credit, property tax deferral

• Published October 07, 2008

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Three programs are just about meeting their end in Gov. Gregoire's new savings plan, all of them projects of the Senate Democrats that never quite got off the ground.

Specifically, there is the state match to the earned income tax credit. The Department of Revenue was supposed to build a computer to handle the transactions, but there was no money to pay for the credit. It's stopped after $230,000 of $1.2 million was spent.

Then there's Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown's addition to the property tax session last year: a deferral program funded with $5.5 million that only a handful of people have actually used. $5.2 million taken back.

And of course there's paid family leave. Which we already knew about.

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