Dear Gov. Ferguson,
I want to write to you and let you know that our taxes in Washington state are making us poor. We are now not able to make ends meet as two retired hard working lifetime residents.
In the past 5 years our property taxes have increased over 300%. We were burned in the Elk “Oregon Road Wildfire” a year and a half ago. After losing everything, we have just now rebuilt a home that is smaller with our insurance. Starting over at 70 & 66 years old has been difficult. But, the main point I need to make is, please don’t ignore people on the east side of our state. We pay a lot of taxes that seem to only benefit the West side.
Could you please stop the party wars in the House and Senate and allow some common sense to survive, or hopefully thrive.
We need less taxes and an end to wasteful spending. We feel like we are under seige and are being starved out by exorbitant political desires on the west side. If we don’t have the money then don’t do a new program, just don’t do it. Don’t just keep increasing our tax load to serve a blind majority. Please grow some mix of common sense in the crops.
Send your messages through the governor’s contact form: https://governor.wa.gov/contacting-governor/contacting-governors-office/send-gov-ferguson-e-message
Writing a Letter a Day… may help to make a change.
Read about Benjamin Franklin and learn from a historic politician who had a lot of success.
Benjamin Franklin…
had a lot of skills used to influence others…
Read a little about those practices and see if you could use them to deal better with any political conversation you encounter in the future. I loved these ideas and am planning to try and do them myself.
Let me know what you think, after you read this article. I am going to write letters to our Governor, fun, fun, fun.
Governor Ferguson is persuadable—especially if he’s trying to rebrand as a moderate. That gives us an opening. Let’s encourage him to be more moderate. It’s a win for him and for Washington.
Write him a short letter each day until the budget is signed. It can be the same message or different facts each day—there’s plenty to use from the Tax Madness page.
IRS Break. The Internal Revenue Service is giving fire victims a break in filing their taxes. It is not much but they have extended dates to file and pay taxes and are pointing out ways to get copies of previous tax returns for free along with checking out how to file for losses. We also have a new label, “4759-DR” to put on all of our tax paperwork. FUN, FUN, FUN. Simply do all of this while you burn the monstrous slash piles in the mud and cold.
FEMA & SBA are here, The Federal Emergency Management Association and Small Business Association have set up shop at the Country Church of the Open Bible in Elk WA this week. These are along with two other organizations including the mobile DSHS crew and an Insurance Commissioner representative from Olympia. I went in on Friday to register with whatever programs were available for our family. There are four places you can do the paperwork for disaster assistance right here in Elk. The only way you can guarantee that you will get NO assistance is to NOT APPLY. So, be sure to come on down and apply.
SBA-The U.S. Small Business Administration was the second office I went to apply for assistance. If we qualify, we can get a loan with no interest in the first year and low interest after that. We are hoping to qualify to get enough funds to cover what our insurance company is not going to cover as we rebuild. You don’t have to be rebuilding, you can be relocating instead. They share information with FEMA and ask a few more questions. I thought they would only help with loans for my business and I was wrong. They also do loans for much more.