State spending is the problem

Published 10:56 am Friday, February 3, 2012

A few weeks ago the State Auditor uncovered thousands of dollars in excessive costs for cell phones provided to state employees. Now the auditor has uncovered millions of dollars wasted on legal bills for sex predators.

Why does it take the auditor, with limited resources, to uncover wasteful spending? Where is our leadership in Olympia? Why is the governor’s office not managing the resources provided by our tax dollars? Why is the legislative body not providing oversight and fixing broken laws that allow such wasteful spending? How much more wastefulness is happening?

We don’t have a revenue problem that needs to be fixed by increased taxes, we have a spending problem, and until our elected officials get that fixed, don’t impose nor ask the taxpayers to increase taxes.

Larry Brickman, Bellevue