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Initiative King Tim Eyman, co-sponsor of this year’s I-960, the Taxpayer Protection Initiative, and and head of Voters Want More Choices, a grassroots taxpayer-protection organization, will be speaking at the Port Orchard Chamber of Commerce meeting on Sept. 13. The meeting will be held at LaGarmache, with doors opening at 11:30am.
Iinitiative opponent Christian Sinderman has also been invited to attend, with the goal of making the event into a debate, but as of yet there has been no response from Sinderman. If Sinderman can attend, the event will be held in a debate-style format. If not, Eyman will be the lone, main program speaker.
I-960 closes loopholes that the Legislature has put in the original Taxpayer Protection Act I-601, approved by voters in 1993. I-960 also requires much more public disclosure about the costs and legislators’ sponsorship and voting records on tax increase bills in Olympia.
Eyman and his team of supporters have qualified 9 measures for the ballot over the years and voters have approved 7. They’ve lowered car tab fees twice, capped property tax increases twice, empowered the state auditor to conduct performance audits of state and local governments, shrunk the size of the King County Council, protected the initiative process, and made it tougher for politicians to raise taxes.
Their initiatives give the average taxpayer an equal voice in the process and have saved taxpayers over $9.1 billion so far. He was born and raised in Yakima and graduated with honors from Washington State University with a business/economics degree. He’s 41 years old and lives in Mukilteo with his wife and two sons. |
