There was this Judge named Emmit Parker, he was a former next door neighbor, with a summer residence on Lummi Island. AK Steam, sails by Village Point on Lummi's former, whistle stop "Carlisle Packing" 1st stop, for Prohibition.

"We had an income tax once in Washington state. It was during the Great Depression, and a lot of people were down and out. People were so excited about the income tax that they voted twice. First, they changed the state constitution to allow the tax. Then voters approved the tax – 70 percent in favor. “It was more popular on that ballot than bringing back the sale of beer,” said Geoff Crooks, former commissioner of the Supreme Court. Times were so desperate that a dozen legislators shared a boarding house with a single bathtub. The governor lent them his old suits because they didn’t have proper clothing for the legislative chamber..." 

Then came William H. Seward's, Fourteenth Amendment.

http://kuow.org/post/strange-short-story-washington-state-s-income-tax