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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: miraje who wrote (426362)	7/13/2003 10:52:24 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 769670

Here's one of your conservative brethren in play here in my home state First of all, I'm not a conservative. I'm a libertarian and I'd be willing to bet that my views on some issues are far to the left of yours. And your point is? Second, you can excoriate the messenger all you want, but that does not have any relevance to the validity of the message. I "excoriate" the messenger not because of his message but because of his dishonesty. And I have found that those who are dishonest tend to have a corrupted message. No matter what one thinks of Eyman on a personal level, he has, in fact, done more to attempt to slow down the voracious WA state spending monster than anyone else that I'm aware of. Actually, I would say that Locke and the state legislature have done a better job this year than Eyeman did in 4. Some will say that Eyeman started it; if that's true then Eyeman did do some good. However, I would argue that the state legislature/Locke's successes in cutting spending resulted from necessity [as in the mother of invention] and not Eyeman who is a frat. boy [like Bush] who went amok. What's Washingtons sales tax rate now? 8.5 or 9 percent?? And I know from having lived there in the mid 90's and having good friends who are still there, that Washington is a very business unfriendly state, with unduly burdensome regulatory and tax policies. That's the mantra of conservatives and, I guess, libertarians that taxes=a business unfriendly state. That mantra is true only some times; to whit, check out CA's tax structure and its ability to produce jobs in spite of horrendous taxes. When making decisions to relocate or expand, industry looks at more than just taxes. You should be grateful to Eyman, for starters, that you don't have to pay $1,000 or more for your yearly vehicle tags any more. While I do drive a fairly expensive car, I never paid 1k even when it was new. Of course, all the nose bolted, green haired, tofu chewing screwballs who currently infest the Puget Sound area probably ride bicycles anyway.... I can tell you were real happy here! I hope you like your new home better.