Robin's Ruminations

With my previous post about the looming B&O tax increase I think I may have opened the political door just a bit.  This blog isn't about politics except as it may relate to service of process.  However, I opened the door a bit and now I want to gently close it with a touch of explanation.

Like I said in the previous post, I'm a centrist voter.  My goal as a citizen is to listen to all sides, evaluate the material (what ever it might be), and make a personal judgment on it.  Then, at the proper time, I participate in the grandest and longest running revolution this small world has ever seen (the American Experiment) by voting in every election.  I always try, though I don't always succeed, to cast an informed vote.  This is my duty, indeed my most sacred duty, as a citizen.

I may be naive but I am convinced that the citizens of a country are responsible for the government of that country.  This is especially so in a democratic republic such as ours.  I hold myself personally responsible (along with the other 300 million of us) for the conduct of our government.

Which brings me back around to my post about the B&O tax.  The legislators in Olympia are my (our) employees.  I have voted for (helped hire) members of both parties.  Unfortunately the members of the majority party are proving themselves (in my opinion) to be inadequate for the job at hand.  Therefore it is incumbent upon me to work towards their replacement.  If that replacement also fails then the process is repeated until I (we) finally get it reasonably correct.

I don't stand particularly left or right, conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republican.  I don't believe any certain manner of thinking is the correct and only one.  The entire spectrum, from far left to far right, has pieces of value for me.  

My bottom line is personal responsibility.  I believe (though I may be wrong) the state needs to control its spending more than what it has done so far.  But, if the state continues to increase spending, and the taxes to support that spending, then it is because this is what a majority of our citizens want.  The politicians are just there doing the job we (the collective we) hired them to do.  Don't blame the servant for the master's mistakes.  And we are the masters.