Re: “Ferguson proposes $4B in cuts, furloughs in face of WA budget shortfall” (Feb. 27, Native Information):
I work for a neighborhood school as an information analyst, a extremely technical place, but I earn far lower than the median wage for King County, the place I dwell. I may earn much more doing the identical kind of labor at an organization, however I discover it extra significant to help college students of their schooling relatively than help company CEOs making their thousands and thousands of {dollars}.
Gov. Bob Ferguson has proposed a one-day month-to-month furlough for all state staff to save cash, so I’d be incomes even much less. However on the identical time, one in all each 10 employees in King County earns $1 million or extra. No person wants $1 million.
It’s time for a state earnings tax on excessive earners. They’re the first purpose costs are so excessive on this space, and it’s time for them to pay their justifiable share for his or her excessive consumption.
Elizabeth Banning, Bothell
