Tax trickery in play

Gov. Christine Gregoire, Lisa Brown and company are once again promoting one of the biggest frauds in our history, the politicians’ trick of making the ordinary citizen believe that the income tax is a scheme to soak the rich.

They appeal to our sin nature and, like Satan himself, tell us it’s OK to covet another man’s wealth and it’s our right to steal his income to supplement our own. The same deception was used in 1913 when the federal income tax became law. No income tax was levied on incomes under $5,000, which included most families.

An income of $5,000, you paid $20; $10,000, you paid $70; $100,000, you paid $2,500 in income tax or 2  1/2 percent.

We all know how the federal income tax rates have increased over the years and that the tax burden now falls largely on the working middle class. The same will happen with the state income tax. The working middle class will eventually bear the additional tax burden and the politicians will use the revenue to buy the votes of the ever-expanding welfare class.

Vote “no” on 1098.

Steve Dunham

Spokane