Tax dollars
Too much wasteful spending
Dear Editor:
I have lived on Camano Island for my entire 54 years and have never seen such wasteful spending of the taxpayers’ dollars in my entire life.
Let’s start with the $5 million train platform. How in the world can you justify that chunk of concrete and a cover for $5 million?
Since I deal in real estate, let’s see what you could of bought with that $5 million.
How about 16 homes at $300,000? Between north Snohomish County and Camano Island there are 223 homes for sale.
We could have housed low income seniors, perhaps battered women, families between jobs or homeless, or even used as rentals and recaptured the money.
We have our men and women in the service living off food stamps, we have our neighbors losing their homes, we have boarded up windows in businesses all over, but we got a train platform.
We could of had a local builder build a full service train station with bathrooms, for around one-tenth of the price with handicap service to the train included.
Let’s move on to the new bridge approach on Camano side. I have no idea how many tens of thousands of dollars have been spent trying to hold a temporary road there.
From dump truck after dump truck of rock, now we have the blue bags.
Taxpayers, how do you feel when your tax dollars are spent on having someone place little flags on the weeds along side the road, or placing a cyclone fence around a runoff pond, or the orange fencing that does not do a dang thing but cost money?
Are we, the taxpayers, going to fence the entire slough and every piece of water in the state?
I am certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but this environmental crap is killing this country and taking private property rights.
Moving on to the local fire department, what exactly are you trying to accomplish?
You pay well over a million dollars for the property at Terry’s Corner and you can’t even park a fire truck there?
Just because we the taxpayers have given levy approval, does not mean you need to spend it.
We the citizens are being taken, we vote to stop the spending and senators say we don’t know what we are talking about.
Ron Wells Camano Island
