Car tabs: Voters see through misleading rhetoric

Re: “I-976 ballot language irresponsible,” (TNT letter, 11/16).

The letter writer accuses the ballot wording on Initiative 976 as being misleading. I find it ironic that the real misleading was done by those who want to tax us to death.

When Sound Transit 3 was first being considered, we were misled as to its true cost to taxpayers. We are taxed at an inflated rate on our vehicle values. But the socialist-Democrat element stonewalled any effort to correct it.

The ads against I-976 were outright lies, blaming it for jeopardizing Washington’s transportation future. They even cited the 2013 bridge collapse in Skagit County, which was caused by a truck hitting a bridge support.

The sorry state of roads and bridges in this state took years of mismanagement to develop. The transportation budget spends a large percentage of revenue subsidizing ferries and bus transportation instead of roads and infrastructure.

Of course the unions who are in bed with Democrats spent a lot of money to defeat I-976.

We have the fourth-highest gas taxes in the nation. The voters finally woke up. Message sent.

This story was originally published December 4, 2019 at 4:02 PM with the headline "Car tabs: Voters see through misleading rhetoric."