SENATE BILL 5182 -- Intent: Eliminate advisory balloting from elections, thus silencing the People. The legislators don't want to balance the budget. But they want to spend your money without asking you about it. You have to imagine this is connected to the greedy legislature's desire to enact an income tax.
The easiest way to enact unlimited taxes is to silence the people's voice.
From the text of the proposed law:
"The legislature finds that transparency and fiscal responsibility are important principles for state government, including election administration. The legislature finds
- that advisory votes are nonbinding after-the-fact polls that do not aid transparency
- are costly to taxpayers *
- cause confusion and
- frustration among voters, and provide little, if any, useful feedback for the legislature
The legislature finds that there are more effective ways for the public to participate in the legislative process, and to be educated about the decisions the legislature makes without contributing to long ballots, which can lead to choice fatigue and voters abstaining from down-ballot races that determine who shall serve in the government closest the people.
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So the legislature say why bother with the People?
- The people can't make the legislature obey
- It costs pennies to advise the People *
- The People are stupid and easily confused
- The People are frustrated the legislature wastefully and the legislature doesn't like being told that.
There will be more proposed laws like SB5182, so email your legislators -- tell them your voice cannot be silenced.
Find your district https://app.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder/
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* "In a budget of $17 billion a year, $130,000 is a mosquito's sneeze. It works out to 3 cents for each citizen who voted and it reaches every voter in the state … To argue that eliminating this expenditure is about protecting taxpayers is baldly disingenuous," Bruce Ramsey, Seattle Times, wrote.
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