LETTER: Opposes new taxes that impact senior citizens

Congressional and senatorial representatives in Washington, D.C., legislators in Olympia and the county commissioners — all elected public servants — need to consider when they are making a new tax that they are putting senior citizens in a canoe and sending them out to sea without a paddle.

People on Medicare and Medicaid work at jobs to qualify for Social Security. Now they don’t receive the same quality of care as those with private or employer-paid insurance.

Public servants and elected officials are making laws, but they don’t think about us.

We’re in a state of economic depression, the gas prices are escalating, the cost of living is high and we are losing the programs we need to help our communities, youth, single parents, vulnerable adults and homeless who need jobs and mental health care.

I don’t want any new road taxes or gas taxes.

When I leave my home to drive to Forks, Port Angeles or Seattle for doctor appointments, I drive on land we Makah ceded.

We have two prophecies. The first tells of a day “when black snakes will cover Mother Earth for horseless carriages.” Black snakes are asphalt highways.

I suggest creating a lottery to raise funds and also use the special tax on recreational marijuana.

Marijuana has a prophecy. It should have been called medical marijuana. The prophecy says that the spirit of the lizard is in that plant and it will devour your soul. You’ll want your mind back.

The public servants ought to drive the roads we have to drive. They would do better in oversight if they did.

We senior citizens are statistics, too, and by law contribute. There isn’t any heart for the elderly and poor.

Dotti Chamblin,

Neah Bay