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I think our roads here are atrocious. But we need to stand up for fiscal Conservatism. Government needs to "live" within its budget. No more taxes! If the state wants to help make taxes equitable, keep the sales tax, which everyone pays based on the amount the spend. Support (instead of regulate and kill) businesses, which increase the tax base, but remove that tax from groceries, which would help the poor in a concrete way. Tax away on the luxury items! The biggest thing this state needs, however, is a reduction in the government at the state level, doing away with needless and nonsensical regulations on every aspect of life, which necessitates a bloated bureaucracy. Make a state which businesses find attractive again (instead of working so hard at running off major businesses like Boeing, the (now) Chicago-based firm which used to be a Seattle based firm. The answer to economic growth is to limit the growth of government and needless regulation, not new taxes! It would be nice if WA state legislators had more background in economics and less in political correctness.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I want nice shiny Blacktop to drive on too. Maybe if we quit doing things like sending our Governor to DC, to give the "democrats response" to the State of the Union Address, we would have the dollars to do the things that really matter, such as road maintenance.
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