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Soda tax absurd

Sat., April 8, 2017

Why would you impose a tax only on soda drinkers to fund police staffing? What happened to the millions of dollars of tax revenue generated by the legalization of marijuana? Wouldn’t that be a better option for funding additional police staffing issues?

The legalization of marijuana was supposed to reduce the number of inmates as well as the number jail officials required to oversee those inmates. Maybe some jail officials could be moved to the patrol squad. Local, state and federal government needs to quit wasting billions of dollars and expecting taxpayers to foot the bill for their irresponsibility.

Debbie Burkett

Spokane Valley

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