This is an advisory vote to provide input to elected officials
on how to improve transportation in King County.
Vote Yes to Improve our Economy
A high quality transportation system is essential for a strong
economy. King County must improve its transportation system to support
businesses and jobs.
Vote Yes to Improve our Quality of Life
We spend too much time in traffic – time we could be spending
with our families and friends. Commuters have to arrange their schedules
around traffic bottlenecks, congested bridges and infrequent bus
service.
Vote Yes to Protect Public Safety
Many of our roads are dangerous and in need of repair. The Alaskan
Way Viaduct was damaged in 2001 by the Nisqually earthquake and
could fail in the next earthquake. The 520 floating bridge is at
risk of sinking in a large storm if improvements are not made.
Vote Yes to Preserve the Environment
State and county environmental policies encourage housing, roads
and transit service to be developed in the urban area so that our
rural areas are preserved from development. We must improve transportation
to preserve our rural areas. If we don’t act now, the problem
and costs will only get worse. Vote Yes!
Rebuttal of statement against
This advisory measure is about giving voters a say in how we fix
our transportation problem in King County. It asks voters if they
support a regional transportation plan being developed that would
be placed on the ballot for voter approval in 2005. If you want
a plan to improve roads and transit so we can keep good jobs, improve
our quality of life, maintain public safety and preserve the environment,
VOTE YES!
STATEMENT PREPARED BY: Julia Patterson, David Irons, Todd Woosley |
Sound Transit will collect $661 billion during its first 100
years of perpetual taxation – at present tax rates –
due to a straw poll like this one in 1988, and due to misinformation
repeatedly fed to voters since then. These taxes could exceed $1
trillion, over this initial century, if inflation increases.
This enormous commitment, forever, drains billions of dollars essential
for preserving Alaska Way’s viaduct, SR-520’s bridge,
and I-5 and I-405 freeways.
State law makes maintaining bridges, highways and other existing
infrastructure our region’s highest transportation priority,
and requires “least cost planning” for prioritizing
additional programs. However, the Puget Sound Regional Council systematically
sidesteps these pivotal legal duties.
Tax-and-spend officials who “planned” congestion into
gridlock here – while consistently dodging their explicit
least-cost obligations since 1994 – now want another blank
check. Don’t be fooled again!
Tell government that $661,000,000,000, already authorized, can
be spent much more effectively by simply fulfilling least-cost-planning
law and merely heeding Justice Tom Chambers’ squarely declared
concerns that our state Supreme Court is evading its “constitutional
duty to protect the legislative role of the people by permitting
inaccuracies, false representations, and clever manipulation of
these processes.”
Vote NO. For additional information, contact truthintaxes@verizon.net
.
Rebuttal Of Statement For
Public finance is not brain surgery.
Tax resources are not infinite – despite public officials,
with pet projects, who cannot understand upper limits.
Sound Transit’s waste of $661,000,000,000 in our relatively
small region – to carry essentially the same number of people
otherwise moved much less expensively by Metro Transit – effectively
undermines bridges, highways, other essential infrastructure and
countywide bus service!
Implementing our state’s least-cost law can provide billions
of dollars, reduce congestion, and increase mobility.
STATEMENT PREPARED BY: Will Knedlik |
