I have had my fill of Tim Eyman. I wish he would end his constant drives to cut taxes and license tabs and to destroy public transportation, which a lot of people like myself use by choice. I am sick of his spoiled brat tactics.
Granted, Washington state’s tax structure hits right at the average working people, which means that, as a wealthy watch salesman, Tim Eyman doesn’t qualify. So it is he and people like Bill Gates that should be paying the bulk of the taxes, since they are more fit to afford it than the average working people of the state.
Anyway, I wish Tim Eyman would just go away because he is making it tough for state workers like myself to get decent pay raises. But that also begs the argument that the state needs to shift its priorities away from prison construction, mass incarceration and corporate welfare. The state should focus on helping the people who need it to get by and who can’t afford to pay for housing, groceries and medical care. People shouldn’t have to choose between those necessities. I encourage all state workers, unionized or not, to put pressure on your lawmakers to give workers a decent wage increase and not cut social spending.
Lynnwood
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