Over the past six years or more voters have turned down every tax cutting initiative while at the same time voting for more taxes such as the 10 cent increase in the gasoline tax and the initiative to reduce class sizes. Add to this all of the local park levys that have passed along with other local intitiatives makes one wonder whether I-960 would even pass today. My guess is it wouldn't, and answers the question I heard Dori Monson pose today, "I can't understand why more people are not up in arms over the suspension of I-960".

I will theorize that since the economy has gone into the toilet more people are either experiencing or know someone who is experiencing what it means to be vulnerable for the first time in their lives. Perhaps people no longer have the stomach to cut more people off of basic services that alow them some level of medical care and a means to find some shelter and something to eat.

I was down at the Legislature last month. It is not lost on any of them the risk they take by suspending I-960 and raising taxes. Acutally for once I applaud some of them for putting their own re-election on the line rather then taking an all cuts approach like last year that left many of the vulnerable out in the cold.