Artificial Intelligence can do for human productivity what electricity did a century ago: lower the cost of energy, housing, healthcare, and education while creating thousands of high-paying jobs across the state. Washington already holds the talent, the universities, and the clean hydro and nuclear power to lead it. Washington is positioned to lead this future responsibly.
Data centers are the engine of the AI revolution, and they run on water. A single large facility using traditional evaporative cooling can consume hundreds of thousands of gallons a day, water drawn from the same rivers and aquifers our families and farms depend on.
The fix already exists. Advanced closed-loop cooling recycles the same water instead of evaporating it away. A closed-loop data center can run on roughly the daily water use of just five average homes. We will require it for all new data center projects.
We can attract major AI investment while protecting our rivers, aquifers, and environment.
With just 0.7% of the state budget, roughly $280 million annually, we can transform higher education and create direct pathways into high-paying careers.
Yet outcomes in math and science proficiency lag behind our investment. We will reinforce our constitutional obligation to fully and amply fund K–12 with a constitutional amendment that makes it a clear, non-negotiable duty of the state.
For students pursuing high-demand fields: AI, software engineering, robotics, data science, cybersecurity, and medical technology.
For the top 5% of Washington students by academic merit who major in these critical fields.
To attract top talent from across the United States to study and stay in Washington.
We will build strong public-private partnerships with leading technology companies to create direct job pipelines. These partnerships will include paid apprenticeships, industry-designed curriculum, guaranteed interview programs, and accelerated certification tracks aligned with actual hiring needs.
Businesses benefit significantly. Washington's tech sector already accounts for 22% of the state's economy and supports nearly 1.5 million direct and indirect jobs, with each tech job creating approximately four additional jobs across the broader economy.
Washington's unemployment rate currently stands at 5.2%, well above the national average of 4.3%. By aligning world-class education with industry demand, we can realistically aim to bring Washington's unemployment below 3.5% within 5–7 years — among the lowest in the country.
Across my platform, the goal is clear: families earning under $125,000 pay no state taxes at all: no income, sales, gas, or property tax. This plan keeps that promise and explains where the revenue comes from instead.
AI and automation systems, often called "agents," are creating enormous new economic value while doing work people used to be paid (and taxed) for. As that shift accelerates, the old model of taxing human wages collapses.
So we change the paradigm: the tax falls entirely on AI output, the measurable work these systems produce, billed to the companies that own and profit from them. Not a cent of it lands on a household under $125,000.
Every dollar a person earns, spends, or owns is taxed. As automation replaces that paid work, this base shrinks and rates climb on the workers who remain.
AI systems do the production and pay on their output, billed to the companies that own them. The revenue grows as automation grows, and households owe nothing.
Share of household income paid in state & local taxes.
A levy on AI output carries the load instead.
Everyone under $125,000 drops to zero. A levy on AI output carries the load.
Over time, as AI output grows the state's revenue, that same base can fund a Universal Basic Income, returning the gains from automation directly to the people of Washington.
Illustrative shares of household income, based on the regressive structure of Washington's current sales, property, and excise taxes. Final rates are set by the legislature.
No unchecked data-center sprawl and no water waste. New facilities must use closed-loop cooling, keeping our rivers, aquifers, and forests intact.
Match education to real economic demand so every Washingtonian has a clear path to a higher-paying career, funded by halved and free tuition in high-demand fields.
Families under $125,000 pay no state tax of any kind: no income, sales, gas, or property tax. And no person, at any income, sees a tax increase.
Responsible infrastructure. World-class education. A fair tax system. Three practical steps to make sure the technology economy works for every Washingtonian.
