To the Editor:
I appreciate Shoreline News reporting on the PTA sponsored candidate forum and your brief summary of the candidates major points of discussion. I find it frightening that with our present situation of high national and state unemployment, our state government facing a multi-billion dollar deficit, King County proposing a 2% increase in the sales tax, the city of Shoreline selling proposition 1, and Bill Gates Sr. and the unions supporting an income tax advertised for the "rich only", that our representative Maralyn Chase is proposing another tax on intangible property in her bid to be our senator. Do any of representatives think about living within "our" means. It seems as soon as we elect a representative their only goal is to increase the government revenue stream. Representative Chase was awarded the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's award for biggest spender by committing the state to $45.9 billion in legislation during her tenure. I sometimes think I am living in the "Alice in Wonderland" world where logic is turned upside down. Am I the only person feeling this way?
R. A. Davis
Shoreline
Ripped from the Tea Party Headlines!
ReplyDeleteMissing is what the Kenmore area is talking about:
Baker funds the new City Hall debt free, then turns around and issues debt to pay for it, so it isn't free after all, is it?
Signs a long, multi-year lease with Urban partners for $1 per year, an out-of-state developer based in Los Angeles responsible for that debacle in downtown Burien, the public-private partnership of empty condos that has foreclosed.
http://kenmore.neighborhoodsundressed.com/2010/05/14/why-amend-the-development-agreement-with-urban-partners-llc/
Or talk about divisive - joins the council in suing another councilmember who asks hard questions of the city manager about the budget. The city manager has a litigious history (but Baker was involved in his hire, where is the due diligence) and said councilmember is a financial professional.
Don't be fooled.
ReplyDeleteThe Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) is an extreme right-wing libertarian organization.
One of their favorite targets has been and is funding for public education and those who support it.
EFF agrees with Glenn Beck and tea-party groups. Libertarians oppose almost all forms of government spending except for a handful of functions.
If they had their way, we'd be living in a country without Social Security, Medicare, public schools and universities, and just about everything that makes the difference between a civilized nation and an eat-or-be-eaten jungle.
Homes in the City of Kenmore continue to be flooded while the City of Kenmore, under Dave Baker’s leadership, encourages urban development on steep hillsides. There are no sidewalks alongside the rural infrastructure of 18’ wide roads with open ditches that dump into Lake Washington.
ReplyDeleteNow, while the city staff sits high and dry in the new $17 million city hall, homes worth far more than $17 million in the City of Kenmore continue to be flooded. Dave Baker’s idea of stormwater control is to distribute a few sandbags along streets instead of protecting Kenmore families and homes from flooding.
Sure, taxes are low in Kenmore, but the new City Hall wasn’t paid for in cash – bonds were issued to pay for it that could have been used to protect the neighborhoods.