Travel guru Rick Steves is happy to pay more taxes

On the same day Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed the state’s first-ever personal income tax into law, one of the state’s most recognizable millionaires made his feelings perfectly clear: he’s thrilled to pay it.

Rick Steves, the Edmonds-based travel author and TV host whose empire of guidebooks, tours, and public television specials has made him a household name, took to Facebook on March 30 to celebrate the signing of the so-called “millionaires tax.”

His post, complete with a smiling photo of him holding an American flag in his right hand under the words “A Millionaires Tax? Let’s Try Shared Prosperity!” went viral almost instantly, racking up over 11,000 reactions and hundreds of comments as it was shared by Gov. Ferguson and Washington Senate Democrats alike.

“A new tax on fat paychecks like mine was just signed into law in my home state—and I like it,” Steves wrote. For a political debate that had been dominated by Read Entire Article