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ON STREET Would you pay her taxes Brian D'Millo Delores Brown "It wouldn't fix the deficit "Yes - I've always felt like - they should cut spending you're not going to get some- instead." thing for nothing." to fix the deficit? r ....,,. l ..... Janice Wildman Julie Botting "My dilemma is that I don',t "No. I already pay enough think it would fix it - I don t taxes. think there's any truth in Washington." TO EDITOR Not a good The airport time for our income tax is a private -is it Editor, the Journal paid for by People living in the Pio- neer School District should Editor, the Journal have by now received theVoters of Washington latest brochure explain- ing the proposed bond to State - wake up. In Novem- Editor, the Journal rebuild the elementary ber the voters of this state Residents of the City of school. This entails leveling voted down for the eighth Shelton and Mason County time, a state income tax. need jobs. We all agree on the entire area. New gym, Now, with a great budgetthat. We have very high un- new water towers, new ev- erything. The projected cost shortfall, the Governor and employment in our county. is $27 million. Both meet- the legislators are crying, Given this fact, it is hard ings I attended were full of cut, cut, cut. Cut programs to understand the position "we hope, maybe, possibly that will benefit school chil- taken by the Port of Shelton dren, low-income folks who to deny the community jobs, and comments that were utilize the grant assistance some high paying skilled not decisive or absolute, and Medicaid programs jobs, some entry-level jobs The state assistance they are "hoping" to get for and penalize our in state and some unskilled labor only $2 million, more than students who are seeking a jobs. The number of jobs likely won't happen. The- higher education at a price the Port of Shelton stands they can afford. Remember, in the way of is staggering. state can't even fund basic without education person- education and with all the While the Port is busy nel available in state, to fill touting their desire to help cutbacks they're looking the jobs we have in indus- for, money towards a new Mason County's economic try, in come the folks from crisis,,they simultaneously, , school isn't going to be .... other st~.tes ~d eountries.~ are fighting, with evexy- there. I'd wager that with cost 0wr=runs, the' final' bill DO. they,d0, m~rthing ~ ....... thing.they,have, to prevent.. would be closer to $30 mil- ~ about.the extremely gener- these jobs from comin~ to ous tax breaks they have lion. our community. At a time when the given to industries and the economy is so critical for wealthy? No. If they would do away with these tax so many, home foreclosure breaks perhaps there would and retired people living be enough to make ends on a fixed income, perhaps meet. a scaled down plan would have been more reasonable. Do they do anything And lest we forget, property about reducing their own salaries? No. They penal- re-valuations are due soon, ize those who carry on the again. Taxes only go up, state's business by requir- folks, not down. Gas prices ingdays off without pay. I are projected to be $5 a gal- hear the excuse, they can't lon by the end of summer, change the way things How are the buses going to are. That is garbage. They run with that expense.? We made the law, which set are in crucial times right their own salaries, they can now and I believe this is a poor time to be as extrava- change it. gant as this plan appears to By docking state employ- be. I do not doubt the need ees pay and raising taxes for a new elementary build- of the every day taxpayer, ing, just the entire plan all they are cutting their nose of to spite their face. The at once. less money we have to I have family and like spend the less tax revenue family who work there and will come in and the less attend classes and have put they will have to work with. five children through there, Could all this haggling and so I am not anti-school by cutting be a tactic to force any means. I am merely a positive vote for a State concerned with the rise income tax? I think it is. in taxes and the current Remember, the poor do not economy and how many people are going to make pay income tax, the very rich don't pay their fair it finincially. This is not a share and how much does good time. Irene Goldsbyindustry really pay? And- Shelton they all vote. Remember this if the state income tax comes up for a vote again. Jacquelyn W. Johnson Shelton ,,,~_ ,, The City of Shelton has 160 acres of land that can be zoned residential. There is a development proposed for those 160 acres that would provide jobs as out- lined above. The Port of Shelton (and many of it's 107 private pilots), are resisting the development of this land. Why, because Commission- ers Hupp and Wallitner, and Executive Director John Dobson, all fly small private planes. The airport is their private playground, paid for by taxpayers, and they don't want anything, certainly not citizens, to interfere with the operation of their airport. If you feel that the coun- ty needs jobs, come to the City Commission meeting at 6 ptm. on Monday April 18, add tell the City Coun- cil and the Mayor that you back their plans to develop ! :~i~¸ these 160 acres and bring those many needed jobs to Mason County. If you think a private airport for the 107 pilots is more important than work- ing Mason County, stay home. It's that simple. Katherine A. 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