Reject regressive tax hike
Please join me in voting no on Spokane Transit Authority Proposition 1, which increases the sales tax.
Sales taxes are what economists call regressive. This means that they target people with lower incomes disproportionately more than those with higher incomes. I have seen sales taxes described as discretionary, which is largely false. Consider the single mother’s expenses related to raising her child. Almost all of those expenses, diapers, clothing, stroller, a crib, etc., are taxable, and hardly discretionary.
There comes a point where we must say “no” to ever-increasing taxes. Washington residents already pay one of the highest sales taxes in the nation. The STA must learn to operate with the ample resources that they already enjoy.
Jerome Gray
Spokane Valley