Re: “Ferguson proposes furloughs, $4B in cuts” (Feb. 28, A1):
Gov. Bob Ferguson’s disappointing concept that state staff ought to take one unpaid time without work per 30 days for the subsequent two years as soon as once more lays the burden of funding important packages on working folks.
A part of Ferguson’s dismaying proposal is to chop funding to meals banks (!!) and delay public youngster care and preschool packages. As a substitute, tax the bloated wealthy who reside and revenue in Washington state. I’ve organized with the group Radical Girls, which has run many campaigns to tax the wealthy and has supported union drives for this apparent however ignored answer.
Writing as a working lady, it’s pressing that our representatives contemplate our wants. In any case, we fund the federal government.
Gina Petry, Seattle
