Letter: Where will the money come from?

I think someone once jokingly mentioned in the newspaper that if the Kennewick City Council could fund everything on their wish list, the cost would be close to half a billion dollars. Yes, that is with a “B.”

Last year I moved to a larger property just down the street while still within the city limits. My property taxes and assessments jumped 38 percent. Now that our state legislators have decided to fund all the state school districts by increasing our property taxes, it is going to be interesting to watch everybody’s property taxes and rent take a rather large jump in two years to fully fund schools.

Now, The Link wants to try a third time to tax us for their expansion. I’m all for a workers paradise, but where is all this money going to come from? We have two senators, a governor and attorney general who fight the Trump administration on everything and want an extra $25 million for cleanup on top of the billion dollars a year already being spent at Hanford. Yes, that is with a “B.”

This story was originally published July 29, 2017 at 7:44 PM with the headline "Letter: Where will the money come from?."