Tax foes bear responsibility

The sad news that Spokane County must cut 150 employees makes me propose an unlikely solution. It is to ask the likely 150 folks on that staff who have voted in the past decade for the anti-tax initiatives of Tim Eyman and Mike Fagan to resign. These measures to bankrupt state government have trickled down upon municipalities with cuts in social services, threats to public safety, erosion of infrastructure and now unemployment. Eyman’s is a right-wing anarchist movement, one of the most destructive in Washington state history.

Eymanites claim to defend the community’s welfare. (Oops, wrong word.) They could demonstrate admirable voluntarism by pulling themselves away from the “public trough” they have long fed from. More money can be saved by the voluntary departure of 150 anti-tax fanatics from city and state jobs, as well. Some even enjoy cushy upper management positions, many of which are sinecures (a useful word meaning good-paying jobs with few responsibilities, deriving from the Latin for “without a care”). Certainly they would be philosophically more comfortable in the private sector, with less scrutiny and accountability. They could join their ideological buddies, the pirates of Wall Street, and continue to destroy our economy.

Morton Alexander

Spokane