Joy Etienne’s letter (“Just say no to more taxes”) in the Oct. 9 Kent Reporter hit the nail on the head.
Kent has built itself into a welfare city. More than 50 percent of the residents pay no city, state or county tax as their residents are owned by King County HUD, the Federal Housing Authority or Section 8 housing.
Yet they probably count for 80 percent of fire and police calls. The majority of the kids get free breakfast and lunch because our government says the parents are too lazy to fix them a bowl of cereal, a piece of toast and a sandwich; so, we will take care of them.
Then there is the B&O tax. It was campaigned as a road tax to fix the deteriorating streets. Now, we find it used to fund other city funds, not to mention the ShoWare Center, which cannot compete with the casinos.
Now you can see what building a welfare city causes. More taxes.
Many of our city fathers and business people do not care. They get their wages, and business people take in the welfare money and head to the bank.
The big losers are homeowners on fixed incomes as they do not get cost-of-living raises.
Things to think about.
– Gene Bremner
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