Mark this bill paid

I believe many of today’s governmental and nonprofit bureaucrats are fat, having been seduced by complacency and greed.

Today there are intelligent, well-meaning men and women within Spokane who are exhibiting their frustration over the ineffectiveness of our school and health service bureaucracies. They have forged a steering committee to tax citizens of Spokane 35 cents per $1,000 of valuation in an attempt to achieve what today’s bureaucracies, already funded by our taxes, have not achieved.

Aren’t we already being taxed to fund schools and organizations to resolve these issues of dropouts and abuse? Aren’t the administrators of these bureaucracies said to be knowledgeable and intelligent? How is it, then, that they can’t resolve the issues? We’ve given them everything they’ve asked for, haven’t we?

Now, this new group is asking us for $5 million a year, with no plan other than to form a committee. There is no concrete evidence that Proposition 1 will lower the dropout rate or abuse. Is there any reason for us to believe this new committee is able to change the poor test scores, school dropout issues and widespread abuse that others could not? Vote no on Proposition 1.

Robert Waddell

Spokane