Letters to the editor, April 27, 2011
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Hunter vs. tourist
People of Sequim: State Fish and Wildlife and their base, hunters, are stunting your economy five months of the year.
State Fish and Wildlife has said that a hunter is worth $35 per day to an economy. The Sequim Tourist Commission has said that a tourist is worth $112 per day to an economy, over three times as much.
This area could be very prosperous. Everywhere in Sequim it is picture postcard beautiful. Yet for those five months, tourists do not come here.
Eliminate hunting in the Sequim environs and watch your economy grow and prosper. Advertise the community in Seattle, Portland, snow states (etc.) as no hunting in this community and watch this scenic area really take off.
It needs to be done to create jobs for your kids and for your grandkids. There is no more logging and fishing. Now is the time to use the wonderful natural resources we have in Sequim to make this area prosperous.
JoAnne Fleming Mann
Sequim
Last week the Gazette published another unchallenged puff-piece from the offices of Van De Wege and Tharinger. The article oozes Democrat talking points: It’s for the children; tax the rich; taxpayers tied our hands; it’s the Republicans’ fault, yada, yada, yada …. Incredibly, but typically, they use the politics of envy, blaming no-sales-tax Oregonians and evil banks for our budget problems.
Their bill, HB 2078, is an attempt to usurp the will of voters (69 percent in Clallam County) who passed Initiative 1053 last year, requiring a two-thirds majority to pass tax increases. Since then, like petulant teenagers denied an allowance, Democrats have been closing “loopholes,” increasing fees and using whatever methods they can get away with to feed their insatiable appetite for hard-earned taxpayer money. According to the law of unintended consequences, when government closes a loophole a rathole opens, where taxpayer money disappears in the utopian land of good intentions.
The cynic in me thinks the unstated goal of the bill is to use taxpayer money to hire more teachers who will pay union dues that will be used to elect Democrats, thereby creating a Democrat perpetual money machine.
In 2010 voters also repealed taxes and defeated an income tax. Voter intent is very clear, except for one thing, they keep electing Democrats. They vote conservative on taxes, yet liberal on candidates. Voters could save a lot of people both time and money by voting for Republicans who value smaller, smarter, less costly government. Smaller government is better government.
Peter Heisel
Sequim
People of Sequim: State Fish and Wildlife and their base, hunters, are stunting your economy five months of the year.
State Fish and Wildlife has said that a hunter is worth $35 per day to an economy. The Sequim Tourist Commission has said that a tourist is worth $112 per day to an economy, over three times as much.
This area could be very prosperous. Everywhere in Sequim it is picture postcard beautiful. Yet for those five months, tourists do not come here.
Eliminate hunting in the Sequim environs and watch your economy grow and prosper. Advertise the community in Seattle, Portland, snow states (etc.) as no hunting in this community and watch this scenic area really take off.
It needs to be done to create jobs for your kids and for your grandkids. There is no more logging and fishing. Now is the time to use the wonderful natural resources we have in Sequim to make this area prosperous.
JoAnne Fleming Mann
Sequim
We pay these guys?
Last week the Gazette published another unchallenged puff-piece from the offices of Van De Wege and Tharinger. The article oozes Democrat talking points: It’s for the children; tax the rich; taxpayers tied our hands; it’s the Republicans’ fault, yada, yada, yada …. Incredibly, but typically, they use the politics of envy, blaming no-sales-tax Oregonians and evil banks for our budget problems.
Their bill, HB 2078, is an attempt to usurp the will of voters (69 percent in Clallam County) who passed Initiative 1053 last year, requiring a two-thirds majority to pass tax increases. Since then, like petulant teenagers denied an allowance, Democrats have been closing “loopholes,” increasing fees and using whatever methods they can get away with to feed their insatiable appetite for hard-earned taxpayer money. According to the law of unintended consequences, when government closes a loophole a rathole opens, where taxpayer money disappears in the utopian land of good intentions.
The cynic in me thinks the unstated goal of the bill is to use taxpayer money to hire more teachers who will pay union dues that will be used to elect Democrats, thereby creating a Democrat perpetual money machine.
In 2010 voters also repealed taxes and defeated an income tax. Voter intent is very clear, except for one thing, they keep electing Democrats. They vote conservative on taxes, yet liberal on candidates. Voters could save a lot of people both time and money by voting for Republicans who value smaller, smarter, less costly government. Smaller government is better government.
Peter Heisel
Sequim
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