When are the people in Washington state going to listen to the lawmakers in Olympia for a change? These people keep asking for more roads, for lower taxes and $30 car tabs. And they also want to take away cost effective services that assist the poor such as transit, AFDC and Medicaid. What’s the deal with that?
We, the taxpayers, fail to understand that it is our own behavior that taxes this state and its resources and we keep saying the state is going to have to do more with less, while we keep wanting more and paying less. Now who is really taxing whom? Who determines who gets to join the upper class or the poverty class? Clearly, the rich people cannot relate to middle income people so they have no desire to assist the lowest among us to join the ranks of the middle class for fear that may cause their status to slide toward the middle as well. Yet, as a matter of sound economic policy, the best thing for everyone is to be middle class and then our taxes would not be so burdensome if we are in the soup together.
I suggest the next time you get in your SUV to drive around the corner, ask yourself how many taxes paid for the infrastructure that gave you the liberty to do such a lazy and decadent act. I know the Tim Eymans of the world may seem wise in their simplistic tantrums, but they hearken to the root of our problem; those with the most money are not taxed as deeply as those with the least. So those with the least are tricked into supporting measures that may save themselves a hundred bucks a year, but save a rich guy thousands. Washington state has no income tax which makes it a great haven for billionaires but it just is no place to retire.
Monroe
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