Are you willing to keep voting for policies that undermine your safety, your prosperity, and your future?
Too many voters continue to elect the same officials whose decisions have made Washington State the most dangerous in the nation. Did you know Washington now leads the country in property crime, with families and businesses suffering from record burglaries, thefts, and even kidnappings, according to FBI crime data?
Washington State’s toxic criminal justice system shows compassion for the criminals by reducing sentences and early releases, and in many cases, within a short time, have assaulted and killed victims that would still be alive if the three strikes law that the voters overwhelmingly passed that would put these chronic offenders away for life.
The legislature added $22.5 million for local government climate planning but underfunded services for crime victims and survivors by a similar amount – $21.4 million. The budget adds billions in pay raises for state employee unions but significantly underfunds the ability for law enforcement provide the best protection for the citizens.
The 9.9% proposed tax will effectively give every business owner a choice: increase prices to cover the tax, or cut expenses. For a small business, since most of the cost is labor, there will be reduced hours, reduced wages, and layoffs as a result. Taxing the Mom and Pop businesses out of existence, that’s what the Governor and legislature are doing. Who benefits? Answer the Big business, the corporate stores don’t think they don’t have a big influence in Olympia. The old saying Money talks.
Washington State 3rd highest in the nation for homelessness, with a whopping 12.7% increase this year. Despite spending Billions of dollars aimed at reducing homelessness, it continues to worsen.
The Washington State public education system is broken, with too many of our youth left behind. The future for our youth, the future of our state, depends on educating the ones who are going to be responsible for the prosperity and livability challenges that they will face.
All that to say, who are the ones who are being hurt by a completely failed State government? The answer is the middle class and the poor. Sales tax goes up, who gets hurt the most? Gas tax goes up, who gets hurt the most? Property tax goes up, who gets hurt the most? Every tax increase is just another weight on the backs of the hard-working taxpayers. The ones who write these tax bills and the ones who vote them in certainly are not.
What is really sad is that the ones who vote for these liberals think they are voting for officials who care about them, yet these choices enable the very policies and leaders responsible for the attack on the middle class and the poor. by the middle class and the poor in our state.
Written By: Delmer Eldred
Sent all comments to: theklickitatvoice@proton.me
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