OLYMPIA -- The state Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Initiative 747, a Tim Eyman property-tax limit, is unconstitutional.

Voters approved the measure in 2001 to cap property tax increases at 1 percent a year.

In a 5-4 ruling, the high court said that while the interests of initiative proponents are important, the law requires voters "from being misled as to its effect on existing law."

"A voter reading the text of the initiative could believe that he or she was voting to reduce the property tax limit by 1 percent instead of by 5 percent, a substantially different impact on the public coffers, as well as the perceived benefit to the individual voter's purse," the majority, led by Justice Bobbe Bridge, wrote.

But dissenting justices wrote that "no reasonable argument can be sustained that voters were in any way misled or confused by the effect of I-747, which expressly and was specifically aimed at lowering the tax growth to 1 percent."

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I wish he'd move.