As with question number 3, I believe that uniformity is a good idea and keeps taxes from rising on groups too small to resist. No one wants to feel like their privacy is available to the highest bidder. Most of us do like to benefit from the speed of available information. These two concepts can be made to work if a few items are addressed. A commission studying transportation funding says a new financing mechanism is needed to keep Washington transportation projects on track.
Transportation is at a critical stage.
I sense that most of the voters of my district would rather shift monies away from lower budget priorities before they would favor a new or increased tax. Evidence says that the death penalty works as a deterrent when it is properly carried out without years of delays. I do not support a moratorium. A judge struck down Initiative 695's provision that would have required a public vote for all tax and fee increases. I think that I-695 was a tax protest vote because people do not believe the Legislature is responding to their voices.