{"id":336590,"date":"2010-02-18T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011120914_aturbulenttimefortaxes.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:38:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:38:23","slug":"a-turbulent-time-for-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/336590","title":{"rendered":"A turbulent time for taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Look to the future<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am very disappointed by The Times\u2019 coverage of the two rallies that took place in Olympia Monday and wonder if Andrew Garber attended the same rally that I did [\u201cThousands rally for and against tax increases,\u201d NWTuesday, Feb. 16].<\/p>\n<p>The rally I attended was not for tax increases, it was for finding means to fund necessary human resources in Washington state. Tax increases might be part of the solution and closing loopholes is another part \u2014 winning the Powerball would qualify too.<\/p>\n<p>The rally I attended was looking at the future, the other was looking at the present. As a teacher \u2014 of various age groups \u2014 for over 30 years, I can attest to the expense of trying to remediate students who were not ready for education. These are students who are not prepared to enter the work force and earn salaries and will pay taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Also, people who are not healthy or who currently need public assistance \u2014 possibly temporary \u2014 may become a drain on public resources rather than someone who can contribute to the system. Isn\u2019t that what the \u201cno-new-taxes\u201d supporters actually want: enough people to share the tax burden so it doesn\u2019t fall on anyone unnecessarily?<\/p>\n<p>So, if we don\u2019t prepare for the future by providing public services that will help citizens become and stay taxpayers, what\u2019s the future going to look like? I\u2019m afraid a lot like the present, only worse.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Linda Knutson, Duvall<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look to the future I am very disappointed by The Times\u2019 coverage of the two rallies that took place in Olympia Monday and wonder if Andrew Garber attended the same rally that I did [\u201cThousands rally for and against tax increases,\u201d NWTuesday, Feb. 16]. The rally I attended was not for tax increases, it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}