Re: “Washington state budget: A spending problem?” (Jan. 4, Opinion):
Snohomish County Council Chair Nate Nehring particulars the dramatic enhance within the state finances and laments the impact of upper taxes on residents, small companies and the financial system. What he doesn’t do is supply any options.
Nehring ought to please observe up his op-ed with an evaluation of what discretionary spending must be minimize — Early childhood schooling? Intervention Providers? New ferries? — and the way these cuts gained’t impression our means to “reside, work and play in a thriving Washington state. ”
Steven G. Haynes, Arlington
