As to the state Senate Bill 6346, the precedent-setting “millionaires tax,” I have fears, doubts and concerns. In 2024, then-State Attorney General Ferguson’s office issued so-called “Chicken Checks” to residents from a $40 million settlement against canned chicken and tuna companies. Other checks went to wrong addresses, non-residents, unqualifyied recipients and deceased recipients. A concern is that when I apply for Social Security in the future, effectively one of those monthly checks per year will go toward the certainly-to-be-revised state income tax. Benjamin Franklin once wrote “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”Fabian BorowieckiEverett

Source: The Herald March 12, 2026 09:52 UTC