Can you give a more precise link? Your link goes to the toplevel of the site and I couldn’t find this. I thought the 3.8% was levied on investment income. I guess I could see that extended to capital gains on a home, which for properties held for a long time, could be fairly significant.
having difficulty copying article from the spokesman-review roundtable dated march 28, 2008 sunday. the article cites the author paul guppy vice presient research at the washington policy center , a research organization with offices in spokane, seattle, olympia, and tri cities