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Letters posted to the Everett Herald of Snohomish County.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

IF IT WASN'T FOR TAXES, OUR STATE WOULDN'T EXIST

In response to one letter writer's disdain for Democrats and liberals being 'tax and spend' ("Letter writer is missing the point"), what's his answer for the Republicans and neoconservatives pattern of "spend, spend, spend"--until we are all up to our eyeballs in debt? Who's going to pay that off? How are we going to pay it off? By lowering our overall tax revenue?

Not likely.

That's like having to pay off that $3000 limit accrued on your credit card, but only making the minimum payment each month.

Anyway, it not the property taxes which are driving homeowners out of the state--as the writer claims--but the fact that so many of them homeowners now have mansions upon mansions, home after expensive home sitting on that lush piece of property in the first place.

Blaming Democrats and liberals for collecting on these 'time share taxes' of expensive home ownership is perfectly legal. All that tax money collected on other luxury items that we take for granted isn't going to waste--but instead--going to help improve our community and state's varied infrastructures.

What is so wrong about wanting to keep things progressing in the first place? Without these taxes to hold the glue of our state together--none of what we see on the road these days or elsewhere--wouldn't even exist.

So why complain at all about paying our share?

Schuyler Thorpe

xxxth Street xx #X001

Everett, WA 98204

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