Too bad can’t roll back building taxes

I wish that Tim Eyman would come up with an initiative to roll back the taxes for the Mariners baseball stadium that was imposed on us thanks to Gov. Gary Locke and his friends. Let’s make the ballplayers earn their money the old fashioned way: earn it in the marketplace! Let’s clean up the moral sewer.

Marysville

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