We are being asked to vote on Sound Transit’s ST3. If you vote, and I hope you do, I have six questions to ask yourself before voting for the choo-choo train commonly called the “traffic salvation.”
Will you be alive to ride the train from Paine Field; not from the Everett Transit Station? Due 2041, I will be over 90 years old.
Will you as a renter or homeowner hand over $20,000 over the next 25 years without any oversight? The new taxes include property, car and sales, and does not include the ST2 86 percent overruns.
SeaTac to the UW district is more than 80 percent over budget on the 1996 project?
Did you know ST3 will cost more then $54 billion without overruns. This is greater than the Gross Domestic Product of five states and yet there is no oversight?
Do you know who’s on the Board of Directors of Sound Transit? They are all politicians. Mayors and politicians know how to tax you but they won’t reduce taxes.
What oversight do you have of the bureaucracy inside of Sound Transit? Answer: None!
Case in point — 173,000 ORCA card users’ email addresses were sent to the ST3 Yes campaign illegally to influence the voters.
The nation, the state and the cities are broke and living off of borrowed money that your great-grandchildren who will pay.
Please vote no on ST3!
John Van Dalen
Everett
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