Myths about Eastern Washington--Myth TWO. Eastern Washington does not pay taxes

[ShastatoBaker]

Originally Posted by seattlerain

I'm beginning to wonder if you know how a representative democracy works.

As far as I know, it doesn't.

[PS90]

Originally Posted by kanhawk

Back to the OPs motivation for starting this thread, there has been a drumbeat of criticism from western Washington mostly liberals and Democrats that Republican dominated eastern Washington complains too much about government and taxes, but actually gets more out of the deal and is in fact subsidized by western Washington wealth.
This actually mirrors a national debate from blue states claiming they subsidized red states and red states are a bunch of ingrates for not turning around and voting for the Democrat party because of it.
I really don't know what is true but if Democrat leaning areas are subsidizing these more Republican areas...well, the Democrats control the state. If the west feels it is sending too much money to eastern Washington, stop sending it, you have the power.

I agree. I think that was "509"'s point of starting this thread - and it seems clear by some of the posts on this thread - that the liberals in Western WA would love it if they did have the tax-revenue clout to MAKE us shut-up. As it is right now, they just want to pretend not to hear us (and tell us to move away).