Income tax

I’ll make this short. Here’s my voice concerning what’s happening with the valley.

Two mistakes don’t fix a problem. The school district is short on funding, and that is more or less due to the booming population in the Valley. But trying to fund it by placing an enormous property tax bond on the ballot won’t solve the problem. Well, it may, but imagine how many it will force to leave the Valley, negating the benefits. If it doesn’t benefit all of those who are current residents, I don’t see it worth doing.

Not to simply complain, I think one idea for a solution would be to create a state level income tax to help fund school districts based on population. Of course, the fear behind an income tax is that the government will go out of control with it, which means there’d have to be safeguards in place. If an income tax is only for education, as I said, and if there is an adequate standard deduction to offset the effects on the poor, I see no harm.

I would suggest others who are reading this to think of ideas, and send it in to either a local newspaper or contact a local news station. It’s an election year after all, and maybe they’ll step up to the plate and try hitting this problem head on.

Tony Parker

Snoqualmie