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Originally posted by island911
The money-grubbing corruption in the state of Washington is staggering.
The dem's in charge have invoked "emergency measures" (wink wink) to push thru additional massive taxation ( 9-cent gas tax increase) for the sake of raising money for . . ..drum-roll .... "future needs."
They think that a new bridge will be needed here. . one there. .. maybe somesort of cool project could be built here and there....
They have ZERO plan/cost estimate, beyond some, sorta, kinda , prolly expensive things that . . .well let's just start TAXING LIKE CRAZY WHILE WE CAN.
What's great is, these corrupt politicians, who invoked the "emercency clause" (and the very tough to challenge rules that come w/ it) thought 'no way can the people fight this ...they won't have enough time to gather the bazzilion signatures required to challenge."
HA! . .to see a stream of people carrying boxes of petitions (against this "emergency tax) up the steps of our state capitol was a big ol'  nah, na, n'nah-na
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Island, you know how I enjoy your slipping sideways, getting some jabs in on gubmint, and slipping away without anyone actually noticing that you have left the topic completely alone. Here, I can only guess out loud and if your tactics don't change then you'll respond in some way but no one will still have any idea what your actual assessment is. Here's a couple of point blank questions, that each and every person close to the problem (these would be the corrupt folks you mentioned) knows has been studied ad nauseum and has the ability to address quickly and directly:
Is there a transportation infrastructure problem in Western Washington? Not a corrupt gubmint problem, but a transportation infrastructure problem. Do you give any credence to the hundreds or thousands of corrupt insiders who have been insisting for a decade that the problem is critical and accute?
If you have noticed that there is a problem, do you have any concept of the consensus of opinion as to how much money it is expected to cost to restore our roads to safe and functional condition? I'll admit here that the figures they use are frightening.
I know you like to pull my chain, Island. On this topic, there seems to be some consensus, as I've mentioned probably to many times. The current wisdom is that if we have enough "Islands" out there in taxpayer land, then our transportation situation is going to get so bad that Seattle will be like a 356 Speedster than crumbles in your hand. Quite a nice thing in its day, and would be great to restore, but the cost of the restoration would be more than the car is worth.
And it surprises me more than a little, that business interests are not being voiced here. Or perhaps they are. If the taxpayer doesn't solve the problem, then private business will be delighted to perform our $200 billion in road construction, and charge us only $500 billion.