To protect our children's future, reject I-2109

By Lorie Stewart / For The Herald

Election season television ads, mailers, and door-knocking can feel excessive to some of us, but we can’t lose sight of what our votes amount to collectively; and that together, we make the future.

Our responsibility to create a safe future, with shared prosperity for our children and grandchildren is perhaps greater than ever.

That’s why I’m voting no on Initiative 2109, which will be on Washington state ballots this November. It would repeal the state’s modest capital gains tax, slashing more than $5 billion from public education, child care and early learning to give fewer than 4,000 mega-millionaires and billionaires a tax cut. All retirement accounts, such as IRAs, small family businesses, farms, and all real estate, including businesses and vacation homes, are already exempted from this capital gains tax that supports safe and bright futures for our state’s children.

I have a granddaughter, great nieces and nephews, and I am an educator and childcare provider, so I am closely tied to the children who Initiative 2109 will directly affect. The futures of all of the children in my life are the primary motivators to encourage others to get out and vote. This is all to say, now more than ever, we must shake off any voting fatigue and join together to vote no on I-2109 resoundingly.

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