Thank you for all your hard work digging into these issues. I live on the west end and had NO idea what was happening in our county. We are the forgotten unrepresented people out here. Why don't you run for county commissioner! Would definitely vote for you!
Thanks again Jeff. On that note while in downtown Sequim, I stopped and asked the firefighters on the corner, while they were holding signs for the approval of
The new Levy. I asked them if they had asked the commission to cut the funding for Habitat, before asking us to dole out more tax money. They had ZERO idea that clallam county was funding them. Goes to show you your reporting is only reaching so far. Great work!
Clallam County, itself does not directly fund Clallam County Fire District 3 (CCFD3) as CCFD3 is separate junior taxing entity (like library, etc.) While it is true that the County collects CCFD3's tax levies on their behalf and then distributes the collected taxes to CCFD3 on a monthly basis, CCFD3's budget is not set by the County. CCFD's budget is a stand alone budget. For those wishing to find out more about the Fire District, their Commissioners and their budget and operations, please visit www.ccfd3.org.
Unfortunately Jeff's messages aren't going to appear any time soon in the PDN, Sequim Gazette or any local radio station. Question folks, "How to inform Clallam County voters?"
Sequim City Council was (and maybe still is?) looking at a special taxing district to handle certain costs associated with east side of town development.
Is the motto of the Clallam County Commissioners "The Gentrification of Clallam County" ?
I so appreciate your common sense. I am all in with the conclusion of this publication. I am not intimate with how our Government morphed from infrastructure management, law enforcement and safety to charity and feel good projects, but it is unsustainable. We have reached the point of Government running out of other people's money.
White guilt and White corruption. There is a certain point in which benevolence collides with economic factors. Deficit spending only functions in a growing economy. I wish Sequim were Vail Colorado or Jackson Hole Wyoming but affordable housing units will not attract the types of people who pay any tax. Just tonight when I visited QFC a tweeker was examining cars in the parking lot. When I first moved here I did not see locks on cigarettes and booze. Wealthy individuals who pay taxes do not wish to live in an area where they might have their skull crushed by a miscreant while pumping gas.
Many capitalists are cultural Marxists IMO. Demographics do affect economic growth. Importing slave labor does reduce costs temporary but it destroys the middle class which is the foundation of a growing economy. When Adam Smith proposed his "free hand" theory of a market economy he did not assume that the Western world would be flooded with people from indigent regions many of whom are tribal and only interested in compensation from government resources. All humans are not the same.
Ha Ha the type of Laissez-faire capitalism described by Ayn Rand will probably never exist because of human empathy and government corruption. If a modern corporation wishes to grow it need the sanction of government officials. If the company does not hire the proper number of females and non Whites prepare for litigation. That is not capitalism.
I don't like evolution but it does produce a superior species whether insect, reptile or mammal. Reverse evolution will produce misery among all castes. The countries that were colonized are generally the most prosperous.
Cutting essential services. Well, go ahead. Cut funding for the fire department in Blyn. Jamestown can afford to take it over. Police services? Cut response from tribal lands. If Jamestown won't pay for services through taxes, they can afford to provide their own. Last article reporting their annual take was $86M/year. They can afford services.
...and don't likely have "personal use". How often do responsible people who pay taxes ever "need" their services? Sure, they pull us over if we speed. They respond to an occasional theft, but it rarely leads to much... you know. This kind of stuff. Fire? Some electrician screwed up royally, or there was a dumb user somewhere. Health. Well, if I need to go to the hospital, I'm glad to have that service, but my insurance pays for that, which I pay premiums for. So, if Jamestown has a medical emergency, they do have the Jamestown clinic.
Honestly, it's all so ridiculous! I'm only making light of the situation because it's basically "unfixable". Too much involved.
Perhaps if our government had never involved itself in the cost of medicine the price might be cheaper. Medical plans merely add more bureaucracy and possibly expense. Unusual medical cases should be treated separately and perhaps on an individual basis. The number of indigents who don't pay will bankrupt the system when the economy reaches a recession.
The net result of all this is a flight from the crazy “blue” states to more sane places. We did 5 years ago and not regretted it for a minute! And it’s not just taxes - our utilities are HALF what they were in Washington, gas prices are 30% less, and crime is nonexistent. Just this week we had dinner with friends who moved out of Clallam for all of the reasons you detail so eloquently. Thank you for being both the voice of reason and adding some transparency to the internal corruption all around Clallam County. God Bless you and for your sake, and everyone else, I hope it gets better!
Exactly! We have lived in what is now Corrupt Clallam County for 37 years and are in the process to move to a sane place. The once warm and welcoming people of Sequim have disappeared...it is now a cabal filled with bullies, filth, crime, and hopelessness. We will always love what once was Sequim, but don't love the Sequim of today...
God bless you, Jeff! This old mama can't take the drama and wants to go to a place where people are happy and live in harmony, recognizing we are ALL God's children and we should ALL be treated EQUALLY...no ifs, ands, or buts about it. We are one or we are done...
Remember, Jeff...I give you my word, if and when you decide to put your hat in the political ring, I will do everything in my power to promote your candidacy...just sayin'!
Clallam County (and state) politicians are following Gavin Newsom's lead in running the state into the ground, turning a beautiful state and area into a utopia for the drug addicts, ne'er do wells, and low-hanging fruit for the Tribes to acquire for pennies on the dollar.
Just wait to see how many hard-working taxpayers remain after they impose a tidal wave tax, an asteroid tax, a sun-is-burning-out tax, leaving only the bums and the "gimmes" with no one to pay for it.
A tax revolt is the only possible peaceful solution but doubt if we have the will and courage to implement it!
We're too afraid to upset the apple cart...after all, look what they did to Jesus when he went off on the corruption in the Temple! And JFK, MLK, RFK, Malcom X, etc.
I actually believe that when taxes are lowered revenues increase because of business investment. The tax base is increased when a business is profitable and taxes lower the expense. A house in a prosperous neighborhood will increase in value. The mortgage companies understand this. Lowering lending rates helps borrowers. Introducing homeless junkies into a neighborhood decimates property values. Government officials though seldom suffer.
Well the Democrat leadership in this state and county don't seem to understand the concept of lowering taxes to increase revenue. I'm fed up even paying property taxes anymore.
Maybe what is going on in Washington DC is an indication that Big Daddy's Mother Lode back East is going to dry up over the next 4 years. That said, will the people in Olympia then continue to raise taxes to maintain essential state services, and the County follow suit and continue to raise taxes to maintain essential county services.
The collapse has already started. We are going down a road that ends at a cliff and there isnt a roundabout to turn us back in the right direction. With reckless spending and mail in voting our so called leaders will continue to put us down this path because there is nothing to put them in check. This is greed at its finest.
The citizens of Sequim are beyond redemption IMO. Not amount of data will alter their political philosophy. They are waiting for the next BLM rally. How many are still wearing Covid masks while they transport their safety dogs through grocery stores.
If you want a good meme for what is happening watch some of those psychos in their 'wing suits' jumping off sheer cliffs and gliding over trees and rocks at a hundred miles an hour, barely maintaining clearance...they make it until they don't!💥
I think the process of Evolution precedes technological innovation by many centuries. The most powerful men now are effeminate. Yet figures displaying the warrior gene are still popular in films. Mixed martial arts competitions are more popular than ever. Feminism has not conquered the male spirit. Hegel, Nietzsche and Aristotle all described the uncontrollable "will" that motivates us. Why should anyone be ashamed of it. Yet so much is devoted to meaningless enterprises. I confess I owned three motorcycles and am lucky to have four limbs.
Articles like this one are why you are skyrocketing in your posts and podcasts. We, the taxpayers, are not informed enough to not at all about our proposed tax increases and what they are truly used for. Here is the little secret that those 3 hamsters (County Commissioners) don't want to recognize: How badly they need us. Without us CC becomes Detroit. I propose finding an NGO to move all tax-paying citizens out of Clallam County to other areas of the country that like us enough to respect us. Until then, see everyone at the meetings to fight for any semblance of respect.
I am bothered by high taxes but I believe that they are only one element in the equation. If we wish to display compassion for the poor the government should encourage and reward entrepreneurs.
As far as property taxes go, many people vote yes that aren't property owners. People who aren't affected by property taxes should not be allowed to vote on tax increases. These greedy commissioners should not be allowed to run free and easy with our hard earned tax dollars.
And stop all the grants of taxpayer money that we didnt vote for especially to the Klallam tribe whose income (tax free basically) is 88 -100 million per year with their 25 businesses and exemption from property taxes.
All the globalists states with their international charters and tribal reparations, turning the blue states into globalist slave states. Reparation H sold separately.
BOOM…bases clearing home run with this post Jeff. People need to wake up and reverse the destructive liberal agenda at work, or continue to contribute to our area’s total decay of the area we love.
Thank you for all your hard work digging into these issues. I live on the west end and had NO idea what was happening in our county. We are the forgotten unrepresented people out here. Why don't you run for county commissioner! Would definitely vote for you!
I agree, you are underrepresented. Thanks for the words of encouragement!
Thanks again Jeff. On that note while in downtown Sequim, I stopped and asked the firefighters on the corner, while they were holding signs for the approval of
The new Levy. I asked them if they had asked the commission to cut the funding for Habitat, before asking us to dole out more tax money. They had ZERO idea that clallam county was funding them. Goes to show you your reporting is only reaching so far. Great work!
Clallam County, itself does not directly fund Clallam County Fire District 3 (CCFD3) as CCFD3 is separate junior taxing entity (like library, etc.) While it is true that the County collects CCFD3's tax levies on their behalf and then distributes the collected taxes to CCFD3 on a monthly basis, CCFD3's budget is not set by the County. CCFD's budget is a stand alone budget. For those wishing to find out more about the Fire District, their Commissioners and their budget and operations, please visit www.ccfd3.org.
Unfortunately Jeff's messages aren't going to appear any time soon in the PDN, Sequim Gazette or any local radio station. Question folks, "How to inform Clallam County voters?"
Sequim City Council was (and maybe still is?) looking at a special taxing district to handle certain costs associated with east side of town development.
Is the motto of the Clallam County Commissioners "The Gentrification of Clallam County" ?
I so appreciate your common sense. I am all in with the conclusion of this publication. I am not intimate with how our Government morphed from infrastructure management, law enforcement and safety to charity and feel good projects, but it is unsustainable. We have reached the point of Government running out of other people's money.
Congratulations, King Ron Allen! You took over Clallam County without firing a shot!
Because the county's uninformed let them.
The sheeple are asleeple!🤑💉🦠☠️
White guilt and White corruption. There is a certain point in which benevolence collides with economic factors. Deficit spending only functions in a growing economy. I wish Sequim were Vail Colorado or Jackson Hole Wyoming but affordable housing units will not attract the types of people who pay any tax. Just tonight when I visited QFC a tweeker was examining cars in the parking lot. When I first moved here I did not see locks on cigarettes and booze. Wealthy individuals who pay taxes do not wish to live in an area where they might have their skull crushed by a miscreant while pumping gas.
Communists in capitalists clothing! All of them!😎
Many capitalists are cultural Marxists IMO. Demographics do affect economic growth. Importing slave labor does reduce costs temporary but it destroys the middle class which is the foundation of a growing economy. When Adam Smith proposed his "free hand" theory of a market economy he did not assume that the Western world would be flooded with people from indigent regions many of whom are tribal and only interested in compensation from government resources. All humans are not the same.
Ha Ha the type of Laissez-faire capitalism described by Ayn Rand will probably never exist because of human empathy and government corruption. If a modern corporation wishes to grow it need the sanction of government officials. If the company does not hire the proper number of females and non Whites prepare for litigation. That is not capitalism.
I don't like evolution but it does produce a superior species whether insect, reptile or mammal. Reverse evolution will produce misery among all castes. The countries that were colonized are generally the most prosperous.
LOL All of the Indigenous People ( formerly enemies ) are now united because of the evil White settlers who introduced electricity to the Tepees.
I don’t listen to the podcast, but the article is clear and succinct. Thank you!
Give the podcast a try, I really enjoy it when I can!
Cutting essential services. Well, go ahead. Cut funding for the fire department in Blyn. Jamestown can afford to take it over. Police services? Cut response from tribal lands. If Jamestown won't pay for services through taxes, they can afford to provide their own. Last article reporting their annual take was $86M/year. They can afford services.
They bought and paid for a 'share' in the Sheriff's Dept.🤪
...and don't likely have "personal use". How often do responsible people who pay taxes ever "need" their services? Sure, they pull us over if we speed. They respond to an occasional theft, but it rarely leads to much... you know. This kind of stuff. Fire? Some electrician screwed up royally, or there was a dumb user somewhere. Health. Well, if I need to go to the hospital, I'm glad to have that service, but my insurance pays for that, which I pay premiums for. So, if Jamestown has a medical emergency, they do have the Jamestown clinic.
Honestly, it's all so ridiculous! I'm only making light of the situation because it's basically "unfixable". Too much involved.
"Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think".
Perhaps if our government had never involved itself in the cost of medicine the price might be cheaper. Medical plans merely add more bureaucracy and possibly expense. Unusual medical cases should be treated separately and perhaps on an individual basis. The number of indigents who don't pay will bankrupt the system when the economy reaches a recession.
The net result of all this is a flight from the crazy “blue” states to more sane places. We did 5 years ago and not regretted it for a minute! And it’s not just taxes - our utilities are HALF what they were in Washington, gas prices are 30% less, and crime is nonexistent. Just this week we had dinner with friends who moved out of Clallam for all of the reasons you detail so eloquently. Thank you for being both the voice of reason and adding some transparency to the internal corruption all around Clallam County. God Bless you and for your sake, and everyone else, I hope it gets better!
Exactly! We have lived in what is now Corrupt Clallam County for 37 years and are in the process to move to a sane place. The once warm and welcoming people of Sequim have disappeared...it is now a cabal filled with bullies, filth, crime, and hopelessness. We will always love what once was Sequim, but don't love the Sequim of today...
Noooooo! I've been kidding this whole time, it was all a joke. Everything is fine!
God bless you, Jeff! This old mama can't take the drama and wants to go to a place where people are happy and live in harmony, recognizing we are ALL God's children and we should ALL be treated EQUALLY...no ifs, ands, or buts about it. We are one or we are done...
Remember, Jeff...I give you my word, if and when you decide to put your hat in the political ring, I will do everything in my power to promote your candidacy...just sayin'!
Tattoos? Sign spinning? I don't care what it is but I'm going to run for something in the next election just to have that happen.
Holding you to it!
Clallam County (and state) politicians are following Gavin Newsom's lead in running the state into the ground, turning a beautiful state and area into a utopia for the drug addicts, ne'er do wells, and low-hanging fruit for the Tribes to acquire for pennies on the dollar.
Just wait to see how many hard-working taxpayers remain after they impose a tidal wave tax, an asteroid tax, a sun-is-burning-out tax, leaving only the bums and the "gimmes" with no one to pay for it.
Now that's a collapse scenario!
A tax revolt is the only possible peaceful solution but doubt if we have the will and courage to implement it!
We're too afraid to upset the apple cart...after all, look what they did to Jesus when he went off on the corruption in the Temple! And JFK, MLK, RFK, Malcom X, etc.
Good thing we're not our bodies!😎
I'm all for a tax revolt, but how will that work without all of us loosing our homes?
I actually believe that when taxes are lowered revenues increase because of business investment. The tax base is increased when a business is profitable and taxes lower the expense. A house in a prosperous neighborhood will increase in value. The mortgage companies understand this. Lowering lending rates helps borrowers. Introducing homeless junkies into a neighborhood decimates property values. Government officials though seldom suffer.
Well the Democrat leadership in this state and county don't seem to understand the concept of lowering taxes to increase revenue. I'm fed up even paying property taxes anymore.
Maybe what is going on in Washington DC is an indication that Big Daddy's Mother Lode back East is going to dry up over the next 4 years. That said, will the people in Olympia then continue to raise taxes to maintain essential state services, and the County follow suit and continue to raise taxes to maintain essential county services.
That could certainly be it. MUCH of the "aid" turns into pocket money for politicians, so the incentives are high indeed.
The collapse has already started. We are going down a road that ends at a cliff and there isnt a roundabout to turn us back in the right direction. With reckless spending and mail in voting our so called leaders will continue to put us down this path because there is nothing to put them in check. This is greed at its finest.
The only answer is to inform the CNN-watchers and PDN readers as Jeff is doing. More people need to be aware of what's going on.
The citizens of Sequim are beyond redemption IMO. Not amount of data will alter their political philosophy. They are waiting for the next BLM rally. How many are still wearing Covid masks while they transport their safety dogs through grocery stores.
ROTFL! When I see someone wearing a mask, I immediately know that they are liberal sheep.
If you want a good meme for what is happening watch some of those psychos in their 'wing suits' jumping off sheer cliffs and gliding over trees and rocks at a hundred miles an hour, barely maintaining clearance...they make it until they don't!💥
I think the process of Evolution precedes technological innovation by many centuries. The most powerful men now are effeminate. Yet figures displaying the warrior gene are still popular in films. Mixed martial arts competitions are more popular than ever. Feminism has not conquered the male spirit. Hegel, Nietzsche and Aristotle all described the uncontrollable "will" that motivates us. Why should anyone be ashamed of it. Yet so much is devoted to meaningless enterprises. I confess I owned three motorcycles and am lucky to have four limbs.
Articles like this one are why you are skyrocketing in your posts and podcasts. We, the taxpayers, are not informed enough to not at all about our proposed tax increases and what they are truly used for. Here is the little secret that those 3 hamsters (County Commissioners) don't want to recognize: How badly they need us. Without us CC becomes Detroit. I propose finding an NGO to move all tax-paying citizens out of Clallam County to other areas of the country that like us enough to respect us. Until then, see everyone at the meetings to fight for any semblance of respect.
I am bothered by high taxes but I believe that they are only one element in the equation. If we wish to display compassion for the poor the government should encourage and reward entrepreneurs.
As far as property taxes go, many people vote yes that aren't property owners. People who aren't affected by property taxes should not be allowed to vote on tax increases. These greedy commissioners should not be allowed to run free and easy with our hard earned tax dollars.
They should not be free at all...they are gray-collar criminals!🤔
And stop all the grants of taxpayer money that we didnt vote for especially to the Klallam tribe whose income (tax free basically) is 88 -100 million per year with their 25 businesses and exemption from property taxes.
Well stated! And yet it all continues thanks to our "cheat-by-mail" voting system.
And pay-to-play socialist politicians...we need a clean slate and actually undo some of the 'already' spent b.s.🦠
It's not enough to stop the bleeding...there has to be recovery as well!💰🤑☠️
All the globalists states with their international charters and tribal reparations, turning the blue states into globalist slave states. Reparation H sold separately.
BOOM…bases clearing home run with this post Jeff. People need to wake up and reverse the destructive liberal agenda at work, or continue to contribute to our area’s total decay of the area we love.
Board of Clallam County Commissioners (BOCC) WORK Session Mon, July 21st, 9am
https://clallamcowa.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3287/files/agenda/3942
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Clallam County Charter Review-WATER COMMITTEE Meeting July 21st
Public comments with subject line “CRC” to the Clerk loni.gores@clallamcountywa.gov
https://clallamcowa.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3575/files/agenda/3959
Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83692664344
ID: 836 9266 4344 passcode: 12345 Audio Only: 253-215-8782 *9 to raise your hand
Public comments with subject line “CRC” to the Clerk loni.gores@clallamcountywa.gov
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Board of Clallam County Commissioners (BOCC) REGULAR Meeting Tues, July 22nd, 10am public comment allowed
https://clallamcowa.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3177/files/agenda/3944
Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83692664344
ID: 836 9266 4344 passcode: 12345 Audio Only: 253-215-8782 *9 to raise your hand
Can’t make it and care to comment? Public comments to Clerk of the Board loni.gores@clallamcountywa.gov
Mark.Ozias@ClallamCountyWA.gov; Randy.Johnson@ClallamCountyWA.gov; Mike.French@ClallamCountyWA.gov