Good morning, everyone... Booshit!
When State Initiative 601 was approved by a substantial percentage of the voters in 1993, one of the protections it gave to us, the voters, was putting a cap on the runaway spending habits of our Congress-critters in Olympia. It make it mandatory that any bills that increased taxes statewide required a super-majority of the legislature before it would be passed into law. Yesterday, our temporary governor just signed a new bill supposedly making it easier to tax us hundreds of millions of dollars without that super-majority, and be damned what the voters said when they passed Initiative 601 into law. Governor Gregoire obviously doesn't care what the taxpayers had to say in 1993. I wonder how long it will be before someone files a restraining order through the courts, and stops her madness before it gets started? What I did notice was that the news media seemed to embrace Gregoire signing this bill into law, without ever pointing out it violates the state law we, the taxpayers, voted into law. We'll see where this latest round of Gregoire rearranging state government will lead us. Dave -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 11/24/2004 Usenet news server : news://news.kharma.net Fortune Random Thought For the Minute "Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous ..." -- Robert Benchley _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [email protected] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
