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To: Bill who wrote (16)	11/6/2002 11:31:54 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7936

I think Dem leadership may indeed be out of touch with what's on the minds of the electorate. But that doesn't make pharmaceutical coverage for the elderly any less of an important issue. Or any less the right thing to do. Okay, I'm really going now. I hope you get other takers here. i'll be back tomorrow and respond if this topic continues.

To: Bill who wrote (16)	11/6/2002 11:37:17 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7936

The anti-tax mood sure hit Washington (the state, not the swamp) hard. The proposal to raise the gax tax to fund road improvements and mass transit went down to defeat convincingly, despite Seattle having some of the worst traffic in the country. The mistake the supporters made was to make the gas tax statewide when the benefits were viewed mostly as urban benefits. Seattle killed the proposal to extend the monorail for mass transit. A proposal to limit the price of vehicle license tabs to $30 and, at the same time, prohibit local government from imposing additional taxes even if they want to won handily. This will also hurt mass transit because several of the large counties do have supplemental registration fees to fund mass transit. All in all, it was not a good year to be proposing tax increases. Roads and education are in even bigger trouble here than they were before the election. Hard to see how the public expects government to provide services when the public refuses to provide the money for them. But oh well.