Ahh, the 2015 political duplicity was begun in the Jan. 11 editorial, “A checklist for the Legislature.” Proposals for capital gains tax is the way to sneak income tax onto our backs. A big new bureaucracy, and greater overburdening of taxpayers.
Income tax superiority is spouted by pretenders of smarts and followed by dupes. When have you seen income tax fix anything? Do corporations evading federal income tax make it more equitable than our sales tax? Have you forgot Boeing hammering Olympia into submission last year?
When Washington’s sales tax was even more “regressive,” the people fixed it. They banned the taxation of groceries. Government’s existence comes entirely from what you produce. As officials drain your wealth by overfeeding government, it “top-heavys” the community. Your governments are now beyond what the state can afford. Like Detroit, which made Michigan a basket case, you can bloat government and its excuses for overtaxing and overborrowing up to collapse, or you can carefully and surgically put money trimmed from official excess into the people’s pockets to grow private wealth to greater tax affordability. You can do this by banning taxes on home heating and lighting; car replacement and repair parts like tires and alternators; and on your telephone billing. Cutting back today to what is affordable to the community would allow regrowing of personal wealth to be able to afford greater taxes tomorrow.
Lobbyists won’t let officials do this. Taxation and regulation have to be policed by citizen watchdogs to keep wealth and political parties from skirting the people’s policies. Citizen initiatives and oversight bodies are the only demonstrated means to do this. This is the cheaper way of citizens.
Other help poor “regressed” people will receive from an income tax will be to have two taxes added onto them. When the state gets an income tax, so will the cities. Three sets of tax forms to fill out every year. More for people holding multiple jobs. While “helpful” officials are given absolute, unlimited control to tax you. When you pay sales tax, you control what you buy and pay in tax.
American overlord officials aren’t superior to foreign overlord officials. Ordinary Americans were superior to foreign ways when they raised themselves over officials to be self-governing citizens.
Ken Stacey
Everett
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