Why the 2017 Levy Swipe is a crime against our children… and my plan to repeal it!

Seven years ago, a horrible crime was committed in Olympia, Washington. It was a crime not only against one million children who attend our public schools, and a crime against more than two million homeowners in King and Snohomish counties, but also a crime against several sections of our State Constitution.

To understand this crime, we need to go back to the crime scene and re-enact this monstrous theft – a theft I call the Levy Swipe. This crime occurred a few minutes before Midnight on June 30, 2017. A vote was called on House Bill 2242 – a last minute 120 page bill that was only published the day before. The bill called for billions of dollars in new State taxes – the largest tax increase in State history. The bill promoters falsely claimed it would provide enough revenue to restore teacher pay to what it had been 20 years earlier – when in fact it did not provide any additional funding for our schools. Instead, it protected billions in tax breaks for wealthy corporations.

A few Senators, who were friends of mine, emailed me this bill at 10 pm on June 29^th and asked me to analyze it. I stayed up all night and the next morning I reported to them that this bill was a Ticking Time Bomb. I explained that it would cause a record property tax increase of billions of dollars on homeowners in King and Snohomish Counties just to protect billions of dollars in tax breaks for some of the richest corporations in the history of the world. I also warned them that it would not actually increase school funding but instead would lead to the mass firing of thousands of teachers all across Washington state. These Senators then emailed my report to every member of our Legislature that same morning.

Pretend for a moment you are in the Legislature and it is your turn to vote on this Levy Swipe bill. Would you vote for a bill that forced a record tax increase on millions of homeowners - and the eventual firing of thousands of teachers – all to protect billions in illegal tax breaks for the richest corporations in the world?

Neither would I. Yet I am the only candidate running for State Superintendent who opposed this bill. All of my opponents who were in the legislature in 2017 voted for the Levy Swipe bill. One of them, Chad Magendanz, actually helped write the Levy Swipe bill.

Sadly, my predictions about the Levy Swipe have been proven correct. Property taxes skyrocketed in King and Snohomish counties by 60 to 70%. Yet despite this record $2 billion per year tax increase, in 2023 and 2024, school districts all across Washington State have been forced to make more than a billion dollars in budget cuts. As a result of these budget cuts, more than 3,000 teachers will be fired – the largest mass firing of teachers in State history – leading to a significant increase in class sizes in school districts all across our state. In this report, we will review how the McCleary Levy Swipe bill, led to this disastrous mass firing of teachers – and explain how to prevent another mass firing of teachers from occurring again in the future.

In this report, we will review how the unconstitutional McCleary Levy Swipe Scam doubled property taxes on homeowners and explain how we can cut our property taxes in half simply by honoring our State Constitution!

How the McCleary Levy Swipe Scam Increased Property Taxes on Homeowners in Snohomish County

https://snohomishcountywa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/106784/2023-Annual-Report?bidId=

How the McCleary Levy Swipe Scam Increased Property Taxes on Homeowners in King County

https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/assessor/buildings-and-property/property-taxes/property-tax-overview/past-years-tax-info

History of the McCleary Levy Swipe Scam

Would you like to know why your property taxes doubled in the past 10 years? Here is why: In 2012, the Washington State Supreme Court found that the Washington State legislature failed to fund our schools as required by Article 9, Section 1 of our State Constitution. At the time, Bill Gates and Microsoft were both getting an annual tax break of more than a billion dollars per year – and Washington was leading the nation in tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy multinational corporations. These tax breaks were clearly in violation of Article 7 Section 1 of the Washington State Constitution which requires a “uniform system of taxes.” These tax breaks also violated several other sections of the Washington State Constitution including Article 2, Section 28 and Article 1, Section 12 which states: “No law shall be passed granting to any citizen or corporation privileges or immunities which upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens or corporations..”

But instead of repealing these unconstitutional billion dollar per year tax breaks, from 2013 to 2016, two of Bill Gates former assistants came up with a different plan. A Democrat Ross Hunter, and his accomplice, a Republican Chad Magendanz, came up with a plan to preserve the billion dollar breaks for Bill Gates and Microsoft by massively increasing property taxes on local homeowners. Ross and Chad called their plan the “Levy Swap” plan. The plan was to increase school funding over 8 years by doubling property taxes on homeowners in King and Snohomish counties. Chad is quite proud of his plan. Here is a quote from his campaign website: “I was a lead negotiator for the McCleary remedy, which resulted in the State increasing its K-12 funding over 8 years by 105%.”
Here is a quote from his campaign flier “Magendanz is recognized as a lead negotiator for the McCleary school funding remedy that doubled state funding for schools over 8 years. “

I, David Spring, was the main opponent of their diabolical plan. I called it the Levy Swipe plan because it used a Shell Game to magically turn billions of dollars in local levy property tax funds into State levy property tax funds – without doing anything to address the actual underlying problem which was the billions of dollars in unconstitutional tax breaks. From 2013 to 2016, I wrote several detailed critiques of their plan explaining why it violated several sections of our State Constitution. I spoke with nearly every member of the House and Senate warning them of these problems.

This is our second in a series of reports on the lies used by corrupt government bureaucrats to create fear in the months prior to the 2020 election. In our first article, we reviewed how the PCR test was deliberately misused to artificially inflate the number of false positive COVID cases by a factor of 30 to create an “emergency” when no emergency actual existed. In this article, we will review how these same officials used unscientific Mask Mandates to further increase fear. We will then summarize evidence that these masks mandates severely harmed our children. We hope you will share this information. It is time to hold these corrupt government officials accountable for the crimes they committed against all of us.

Reykdal has turned our Public Schools from a PCR Test prison to a Mask Mandate crime scene
On June 12, 2020, the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction announced that cloth masks would be required in all school in Washington state when they starts in September – regardless of whether there is any risk of corona virus anywhere in the school district.

Reykdal repeated this order on July 29, 2021. Reykdal boasted that his school mask requirements were the “strictest in the nation.” Reykdal continued to enforce his mask mandate for a longer period of time that any other state in the nation. From March 2020 and through 2021 to April 2022, Washington was one of only 10 states to require mask wearing in all schools. The other 40 states either banned masks entirely or left it as a decision for the local school board.

Reykdal continued to enforce his mask mandates despite the fact that not a single child in Washington state has been documented to transmit the corona virus to a single adult.

Children are more likely to die from being hit by lightening while waiting for the school bus than they are from being infected by the corona virus while they are at school.

According to the Washington State Department of Health, there have been no fatalities due to the corona virus to any child under the age of 20 anywhere in Washington state:

Four years ago, our freedom was taken away from us and our children by an artificially manufactured emergency. The emergency was part of a war that uses monstrous lies to hide the truth. We are only beginning to learn the full details of this crime. We must fight this battle courageously, and we must win, for if we do not, our children will be subject to an age of oppression unlike any in history.

On January 20, 2020, the first COVID case in the United States was announced in Washington state. It was based on a PCR test called the Corman Drosten PCR test - a test that was not actually published until January 23, 2020 and was known even in January 2020 to be wrong 29 times out of 30. We will review the serious drawbacks of this test later in this report.

In March 2020, despite not a single case of any child in any school transmitting this virus to any adult, corrupt government bureaucrats claimed there was an “emergency” which required closing all of the schools in Washington state. The basis for this claimed emergency was that a few people had tested “positive” for the corona virus using a version of the PCR test that was specifically designed to create huge numbers of false positive tests. In this article, we will briefly review how the PCR test works and explain how the PCR test was misused to create fear and close schools in Washington state.

What we describe in this report is a monstrous crime scene. Those responsible for this crime need to be held accountable for the crimes they committed. They must be arrested, tried and put in prison. We must never forget the harm this crime inflicted on our children, our businesses and our families.

How the PCR Test Works
PCR stands for Polymerase Chain Reaction. It was first invented in 1983 by Dr. Kary Mullis. Dr. Mullis was looking for a faster way to create or copy strands of DNA and RNA for use in genetic testing and genetic research.

His PCR process required heating up the sample in order to break each strand of DNA into two strands of RNA. An enzyme called Polymerase (the P in PCR) is used to make the copies of the RNA. Mullis originally used a normal Polymerase enzyme which needed to be continually added because it was destroyed by the heat. He then switched to a heat resistant enzyme called TAQ DNA polymerase produced by a heat resistant bacteria that lived in Yellowstone National Park to assist this PCR process. In 1993, Mullis won the Nobel Prize for creating this process.

Here is a brief summary of how PCR creates billions and even trillions of copies of an RNA strand. The sample is placed in a special chemical soup which uses the TAQ Polymerase enzyme or catalyst combined with Primers or RNA starting blocks that have been designed specifically to match with the regions of the gene you want to copy.