I must correct those who contributed to the article about the sales tax increase on the November ballot.

Those who wrote the article are clearly in favor of transferring money from our family budgets to the county and city budgets. Government cannot “raise” new revenue except through higher taxation. King County Councilmember Lambert is listening carefully to her constituents and hearing correctly that they do not want to give any more money to support an already obese government.

While we are cutting back to stay within our shrinking budgets, one union’s contract grants them a 25 percent pay hike over a five-year period. This is obscene in a recession. This is not about voters supporting public safety services, but about supporting our own families and reminding the public sector that they are there to serve our needs, not the opposite. Forced “transfer” or “extraction” is a more proper way to describe the proposed tax increase, not “new revenue” or “raising” those millions of dollars referred to in the article.

Remember, whose money is it anyway? Then vote NO!

Maureen Richardson, Redmond