OLYMPIA UPDATE
SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT TODAY; let’s start with happenings in Olympia. The state is engaging in what I would call micro-taxation. Instead of facing up to the difficult task of exercising fiscal restraint, the Democrats leading the legislature are apparently planning on lots of small taxes on many things, hoping to raise lots of revenue. For instance, did you know that there is a bill, HB 3120, which will tax bottled water? That’s right, a bottled water tax, specifically and exclusively to be applied to your Evian, or whatever you drink. It’s projected to raise $68 million annually. Then, there is HB 2749, which will grant local governments the authority to levy higher taxes on your utilities: gas, electricity, even your cell phone. That will cost you nearly $500 million over the next 6 years. Washington cell phone users, 81% of you, already pay the second-highest cell phone tax in the country. This bill would make us #1! Another milestone for our state; another millstone around the necks of our citizens. Call 1-800-562-6000, contact your legislators, and oppose both bills.
THE GOVERNOR IS SAYING she expects $435 million from the President’s budget to come our way. Doesn’t she realize that the Feds can’t give us any money unless they A.) take it from us in the first place, or B.) they borrow or print it? Why should we send the money to DC first, where they take their share off the top, then turn around and give the remainder back? And we are supposed to be grateful? Like the slave, thanking his master for the breadcrumbs from the master’s table, after the master has eaten the meal the slave prepared?
THEN, THERE IS THE NEW PROPOSAL for the 520 bridge, made by environmentalist and Montlake neighborhood groups: six lanes, but two reserved for transit only. Six legislators announced their support for the plan. Will this bridge ever get built? Will these people ever learn that transit is not the answer? I thought that we had to build the new bridge now, before it was destroyed in a wind storm or by an earthquake? That’s what they told in 2005, during the 912 campaign. Were they lying to us?
3 Responses to “OLYMPIA UPDATE”
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Subsidize, penalize, tax and redistribute. Don’t worry about whether or not it makes fiscal sense. To be a liberal means that in SPITE of common sense, in SPITE of facts, in SPITE of logic, you are convinced that you know what is best for others, even though it flies in the face of facts, even though it bosses others around. A liberal is willing to take the money and the freedom of others in order to force bad ideas and nonsense on others. It is as stupid and blind as Obama’s comments about getting fast passenger trains here in the US, like other countries. He-LO-o, we would have the private sector climbing all over one another to build them – if it made one lick of financial sense. It doesn’t, but those leftists all want to force us out of our cars , jack up our taxes, and push us back to medieval lifestyles. Caves and cooking campfires will still be controlled by the government (HUD, EPA) when they get us pushed back that far. Don’t forget the spear tax, and the bill they’ll push then, against the right to own a sack of more than ten sharp stones. (related to a current bill aimed at enacting gun controls that are IMHO ridiculous and possibly unconstitutional) It is a pity that people who can’t think straight, and people who want to implement all manner of backward social engineering, still vote.
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Sandra says:
Glad to see someone will run against patty Murray. It is TIME for her to go BYE BYE.
Why is there no mention from either side of the aisle about unwinding the Governor’s deal with the Tribes which exempted them from any state taxes?