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The Farm Stand
discusses the policies and politics necessary to keep families farming in Washington state. Our goal: to inform the public about relevant, current events and encourage people to promote the state’s #1 industry.
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Scott Dahlman
Mollie Hammar
John Stuhlmiller
Dan Wood
Pat Batts
Jaime Rowland
Declining gas taxes leave a hole that we’ll be forced to fill
Mike Ennis at the Washington Policy Center reports that revenues from the state gas tax are continuing to fall – to the tune of 13 percent less than expected for this biennium.
Legislators and analysts have known for quite some time that the gas tax is a declining source of revenue, so they commissioned a study, finished in January of this year, to look at alternate funding sources. The recommendations include more tolling, taxes, and fees.Washington farmers need a good farm-to-market transportation system, and they understand the costs of maintaining that system. But those costs need to be kept as low as possible so that our ag industry can remain viable and help lead the state out of this slow economy. Bottom line: The state will want more money for transportation projects, and old methods of taxation aren’t enough. Hold on to your wallets.
Scott Dilley
Farm Bureau 911
At its April 2010 meeting, the Washington Farm Bureau board of directors approved our own push back campaign. We call it Farm Bureau 911. Think of it this way -– when the fire alarm goes off do we run to the fire or away from it? Historically Farm Bureau members have run to the fire when our way of life is threatened as it is now.
“I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
-- Thomas Jefferson“What’s real in politics is what the voters decide is real.”
-- Ben Wattenberg
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