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I-1033

| August 13, 2009 9:00 PM

Right now is the time to act.  Tim Eyman is trying it again with I-1033 an initiative to lower property tax. At first it sounds good but its not, with jobs and many other issues are on the line like public saftey, education,  healthcare to name a few and we need to act NOW.  I don’t think our economy or any other in the state could afford further job losses. Take some time and read his proposal on I-1033 and then read opposing arguements and make your own opinion but I say “Hell NO”.  Here is alittle info taken online from various news and information websites,

“The reality is that the whole concept of contrived, artificial limits on revenue is completely unreasonable to begin with. In practice such limits have been utterly unworkable. Other states, like Colorado or Mississippi, have imposed them and seen their quality of life suffer drastically as a result.”

“The initiative is designed to lock in all the budget cuts that state and municipal governments are currently making, thus potentially killing thousands of jobs in the years to come.”

“ This initiative is exact opposite of real reform. Instead of fixing what’s broken, it would make all of our lives worse. Much worse. We need real tax reform that improves stability and fairness in our tax system”.

So, Together we can fight this crazy man and win.

Jason Koziol

Moses Lake