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Six years ago, voters in Washington stateoverwhelmingly passed an initiative limiting annual property taxe increases to 1% per year. The State's Democrat-appointed Supreme Court this past week declared the initiavie unconstitutional because of "misleading language". Here's how Seattle's leading newspaper, The Post-Intelligencer (no, that's not a typo) editorialize the decision [I added the boldface to highlight the incredibly obtuse thinking on the part of the editorialist ]:
"The Washington Supreme Court delivered a reasonable ruling Thursday when it deemed Initiative 747 unconstitutional because of misleading language. Approved in 2001, the measure capped property tax increases at 1 percent each year. The previous cap was 6 percent, although voters might have thought that the previous cap was 2 percent.
"'A voter reading the text of the initiative could believe that he or she was voting to reduce the property tax limit by 1 percent instead of by 5 percent, a substantially different impact on the public coffers, as well as the perceived benefit to the individual voter's purse' wrote Justice Bobbe Bridge for the majority. While we see the point of the dissenting justices, that it should always be assumed that voters can, in fact, think for themselves, we agree with the 5-4 majority in this case."
Die, P-I, die. And take your useless, left-wing, tree-eating colleagues with you!
Six years ago, voters in Washington stateoverwhelmingly passed an initiative limiting annual property taxe increases to 1% per year. The State's Democrat-appointed Supreme Court this past week declared the initiavie unconstitutional because of "misleading language". Here's how Seattle's leading newspaper, The Post-Intelligencer (no, that's not a typo) editorialize the decision [I added the boldface to highlight the incredibly obtuse thinking on the part of the editorialist ]:
"The Washington Supreme Court delivered a reasonable ruling Thursday when it deemed Initiative 747 unconstitutional because of misleading language. Approved in 2001, the measure capped property tax increases at 1 percent each year. The previous cap was 6 percent, although voters might have thought that the previous cap was 2 percent.
"'A voter reading the text of the initiative could believe that he or she was voting to reduce the property tax limit by 1 percent instead of by 5 percent, a substantially different impact on the public coffers, as well as the perceived benefit to the individual voter's purse' wrote Justice Bobbe Bridge for the majority. While we see the point of the dissenting justices, that it should always be assumed that voters can, in fact, think for themselves, we agree with the 5-4 majority in this case."
Die, P-I, die. And take your useless, left-wing, tree-eating colleagues with you!
Indeed Yeledaf! They cant even give the papers away here in Washington, The whole state is subject to the wacked leftist opinions of king county (greater seattle area) !
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becasue they suck.
Look newspapers are dying because they suck. For the most part they don't bother to really look into the news anymore. They just follow the philosophy "if it bleeds it leads."
Now from what I took for the OP of this tread is that this is a left leaning conspiracy. Well let just put a slightly different angle on this. While I don't thing this is a right wing conspiracy. I do think the Press pu$$ied out with calling the bush administration to task for the many offenses they have taken against the American population and our constitution. Ex. wire tapping to the lead up to the second gulf war.
I sure Walter Cronkite is going WTF right now.
Indeed Yeledaf! They cant even give the papers away here in Washington, The whole state is subject to the wacked leftist opinions of king county (greater seattle area) !
The Columbus Debauch always has some poor shlepp college interns hawking their crap at local supermarkets.
"Try just a Sunday/weekend subscription?"
My emphatic "No" is always accompanied with an explanation why I won't buy their paper.
So far, no evidence the publishers/editors are listening!
Over here to the left of Club-us, we have the Dayton Daily News. I actually enjoy it. HOWEVER, just like with any other media, the reader must engage brain before reading. Yeah, I'm a little fed up with the "if it bleeds, it leads" journalism today. I still enjoy the variety of columns and local opinion (even if I only agree some of the time....) And I'm definitely in agreement with those who understand that a news reporting organization is mostly in conflict with idea of it being just another profit center for some large conglomerate.
Newspapers are outdated by the time they are printed. At the latest, a morning edition of a paper will have news from 9pm to midnight the previous night. If you read it in the morning, it's already 12 hours old. If you read it in the evening, it's closer to a day old. In the age of the internet, that gap is just too big to manage.
I guess it would be interesting to read the language of the initiative and see whether it appeared to be misleading or not.
I-747's official ballot title read as follows:
Initiative Measure No. 747 concerns limiting property tax increases. This measure would require state and local governments to limit property tax
levy increases to 1% per year, unless an increase greater than this limit is approved by the voters at an election.Should this measure be enacted into law?
Anyway, I totally concur with your "engage brain first" comment.
No matter what the news source, I always put on my critical thinking cap before reading & believing.
What gets frustrating is after soooo many stories, editorials, etc. the smell of bovine excrement is consistent, continuous and wall-to-wall.
That's when I finally give up, and assume thereafter that the source in question is full of it, no longer worth my time.
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becasue they suck.
