Comments on: King County Council Places Sales Tax Measure On November Ballot

By: Betsy

Betsy — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:09:05 +0000

Ridiculous! How about better spending the money you have!! How about cutting out redundancies, process for the sake of process and other boondoggle activites that the gov spends our money on first before putting your hand out once again. I love how the solution is always to raise taxes on the people–the gov is out of control.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:25:46 +0000

Same ol’ “Increase taxes or people will die!” message. Voting no on this one. I’m a slight left dem, with a fiscal conservative streak, and I just can’t vote for this.

By: Hotrodgal

Hotrodgal — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:08:00 +0000

“Under the proposal, the County’s portion of the proceeds would be used solely for public safety programs ranging from the Sheriff and Prosecutor’s Office to Public Defense and Jail Health Services.”
I would like to know how much of these funds actually go directly into beefing up our police force to protect the innocent public…not to help the poor criminals with legal help and health services.
I also am curious as to know where the other two-thirds of the $24 million, going to local city governments, would be spent.
I am not against sales tax. We don’t have state income tax here so we have to pay our costs with something but it seems this ballot leaves a lot of ‘free money’ floating around with no public control of its uses.
I agree with Coverofnight… “Sounds like scare tactics to me.”

By: Greg Fox

Greg Fox — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:54:02 +0000

While the intent of this bill (and tax) may be quite noble, it still is an increased tax which many of us can ill afford.
NO TO ANY INCREASE IN TAXES FOR WHATEVER REASON!
Do without or take the money from some other worthy source.
The last thing needed in this economy is more taxes! This appears to be a last ditch effort by the powers-that-may-be to tell us that if we don’t increase the taxes then we should do without. If that is the case, then I say we do without.
The existing 9.5% sales tax and new license plate fees and new soda, alcohol, cigarette and sugar taxes in King County are by far too much!!!

By: Coverofnight

Coverofnight — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:34:49 +0000

Right on, Julie! If public safety is so important, why are the police jobs the first to be threatened with cuts when there is a deficit? That tells me that maybe cops aren’t as high a priority as the Council would like you to believe; they’ll cut cops before they cut their own departments’ budgets and salaries. Sounds like scare tactics to me. Didn’t we just see some similar logic regarding the B-Town Burger break-in where Block said we need higher taxes if we want better “proactive” police protection? These politicians need to do a better job of belt-tightening even if it means laying off a LOT of public employees! Oh, but they can’t do that because of the unions…..maybe they ought to visit 1-888-no-union.com for more information. What’s more important, a balanced budget with the County making sacrifices or higher taxes and make the citizenry sacrifice more?

By: Julie Dosono

Julie Dosono — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:48:12 +0000

Just what we need more taxes.If Washington does not already have enough taxes.I am a life long democrat but now is time for me to vote these tax crazy democrats out of office.