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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Restart Military Draft like 60s
Add your comment for Idea: Restart Military Draft like 60sVery simple.. Restart the draft program to military.. every kid registers at age of 18.. WHY NOT-- They become real people after tour of duty.. Plus todays military is the hot item for employment.. Only losers would not do this.. like we have now, maybe we could change that.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Paying for school bus use
Add your comment for Idea: Paying for school bus useHave public school students riding buses require a bus pass. Something not too ridiculous, like $10 a month or have a family plan like $15/month. Those buses must be costly to maintain/insure/fill with gas. Parents who don't like it can drive their kids or have them walk/bike to school. Obviously this would need low income standards as well.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Help for Former Inmates
Add your comment for Idea: Help for Former InmatesContinue to save on the cost of incarceration by letting those who are programming, have completed a trade or work program and are infraction free for 5 or more years return home with a monthly stipend. It is cheaper than the cost of incarceration is yearly, even if you pay their rent!
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Planning for our future
Add your comment for Idea: Planning for our futurePrepare for a future that is very bleak. We've poisoned our planet beyond the tipping point of preventing a significant collapse of global population due to that poisoning. Getting enough to eat will become the most important budget item within the next 10 - 15 years.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »statewide emissions
Add your comment for Idea: statewide emissionsMake everyone statewide do emissions. Its not right that just because you live in the country you can have a polluting vehicle and get out of paying for this cost. May collect a few dollars by doing this.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Work
Add your comment for Idea: WorkIt seems like 1,990 suggestions have been made, not one in review, in progress, and none completed. What are you doing? There are some good suggestions here, have you even been reading them? Time for some action, Queen Crissy, not tomorrow, but today. Get busy and start cutting.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Sales Tax on boats and airplanes is incorrect now
Reduce sales taxes on aircraft and boats. Currently these are taxed the same as everything else, but they are so portable that many owners leave the state to avoid the tax. It is very simple to register these in another state that has no or very low sales taxes. When this happens, all the businesses that would support these boats and airplanes lose them as customers. No service, storage, maintenance, fuel sales, etc. ...more »
Add your comment for Idea: Sales Tax on boats and airplanes is incorrect nowReduce sales taxes on aircraft and boats. Currently these are taxed the same as everything else, but they are so portable that many owners leave the state to avoid the tax. It is very simple to register these in another state that has no or very low sales taxes. When this happens, all the businesses that would support these boats and airplanes lose them as customers. No service, storage, maintenance, fuel sales, etc. No sales tax collected for these services, and no jobs in Washington to perform them. The current method costs Washington state lots of tax income because the overall plan is wrong. Florida recently placed a limit of $18,000 on the sales tax on boats as a way to fix this problem. You might say the rich guy who buys a $2,000,000 boat can afford $170,000 in sales tax, and you would be right, he can afford it. But he will not pay it, he will simply license it and leave it in Oregon or British Columbia to avoid the sales tax and then all the future expenses are lost to Washington.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »activist
Add your comment for Idea: activistStop subsidizing global warming!
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Expand Use of Dispute Resolution Centers
Expand utlization of Dispute Resolution Centers (DRCs). DRCs are private, not-for-profit, or public agencies. Since 1984, twenty local DRCs have been established to provide alternative dispute resolution, mediation and training services. Centers are mandated to provide services independent of clients’ ability to pay, guaranteeing that all citizens have access to a low-cost resolution process when they can’t afford ...more »
Add your comment for Idea: Expand Use of Dispute Resolution CentersExpand utlization of Dispute Resolution Centers (DRCs). DRCs are private, not-for-profit, or public agencies. Since 1984, twenty local DRCs have been established to provide alternative dispute resolution, mediation and training services. Centers are mandated to provide services independent of clients’ ability to pay, guaranteeing that all citizens have access to a low-cost resolution process when they can’t afford costly litigation and/or when they want to work things out directly with the others involved. According to the Governor’s own budget numbers, the elimination of $500,000, or $7.69 per person, to Dispute Resolution Centers will end up costing the courts $13.65 million, or $210 per person. Imagine what is possible if the state increased the ways that mediation and other conflict resolution services are utilized throughout the state and the savings that could be realized.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »nursing homes
Add your comment for Idea: nursing homescheck into nursing homes that are charging or ordering medicines for patients that don't even need them.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Stop development on agricultural land.
2 comments for Idea: Stop development on agricultural land.All agricultural lands should be protected from non-agricultural development. It should be very difficult to get a permit for development. It should require a 2/3 vote from the residents of the area.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Legalize Cock Fighting
1 comment for Idea: Legalize Cock FightingLegalize Cock Fighting. It would bring money into the state. All traditional games and sports should be allowed in our state to provide tourist dollars.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Statewide Free WIFI
2 comments for Idea: Statewide Free WIFICreate a Statewide WIFI network. Would attract businesses and enable jobs. The communication in our state would be world class. The benefit to our citizens would be awesome
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Require developers to build all structures below ground.
Add your comment for Idea: Require developers to build all structures below ground.Require developers to build all structures below ground. It would create open spaces. Save money on construction and could produce green energy.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Sell illegal drugs in state stores.
Sell illegal drugs at state stores. Keep the cost low and the product free of impurities. The drug user could get help while obtaining the drug. The drug user wouldnt need to steal or rob people. The drug user would have a clean safe place to use drugs. Needle exchanges would keep the needles in a safe place. We would save money on law enforcement and confinement. We could provide treatment when the drug users has ...more »
Add your comment for Idea: Sell illegal drugs in state stores.Sell illegal drugs at state stores. Keep the cost low and the product free of impurities.
The drug user could get help while obtaining the drug. The drug user wouldnt need to steal or rob people. The drug user would have a clean safe place to use drugs. Needle exchanges would keep the needles in a safe place. We would save money on law enforcement and confinement. We could provide treatment when the drug users has trouble with drugs.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Eliminate the election sites and staff
4 comments for Idea: Eliminate the election sites and staffMail-in Ballots throughout the State. No Election sites or staff.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Cover Eastern Washington with Solar Panels.
Add your comment for Idea: Cover Eastern Washington with Solar Panels.We should put large parts of Eastern Washington under solar panels and sell the power to California.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »We need to spend money on wave and tidal power research
Add your comment for Idea: We need to spend money on wave and tidal power researchSpend money on research to learn how to use our awesome tide power and wave action along the coast to produce power. Sell the power to california.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Think Outside the Box
I suggest you start thinking outside the box. Instead of wringing your hands and admitting to the public that you failed to recognize the economic downturn, call a conference of business leaders with the set topic not to cut,cut,cut government services but think of original fund raising ideas to pull us through e.g. sell a small space for advertising to businesses on state license plates or on electronic signs placed ...more »
Add your comment for Idea: Think Outside the BoxI suggest you start thinking outside the box. Instead of wringing your hands and admitting to the public that you failed to recognize the economic downturn, call a conference of business leaders with the set topic not to cut,cut,cut government services but think of original fund raising ideas to pull us through e.g. sell a small space for advertising to businesses on state license plates or on electronic signs placed on the MANY state office buildings around the state or seek donated items for huge auctions to citizens who receive quality goods or services by buying to donate to the state fund. Start thinking "outside the box" for those of us who have supported you at the polls and in discussions over the years!
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »video tickets
3 comments for Idea: video ticketsChange the video camera tickets to a funding that goes to the general fund and not to the city's. also it was suppose to be a ticket equal to a parking infraction and go to the registered owner. the most exspensive parking ticket is $45.00 how are the cities getting away with miss managing the cost amounts.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Boaters license
2 comments for Idea: Boaters licenseBoating has become so dangerous and alot of people die every year in boating accidents. Alot because there is no enforcement out there. Start a boaters license just like a car. Make your recreation and natural resource officers start doing their jobs in boating. Make them get out there and do their jobs and save lives.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »new income sources
If you would charge $1.00 for a car to enter into our parks and natural areas or recreation areas in all three natural resource agencies. You would make billions. Do not do what Wa. St. Parks did and start out at $5.00 and then two years later start telling everyone your raising it to $7.00. create a bill capping the amout at $1.00 for 10 years and then $1.50 for ten years. at that rate people will support it. in the ...more »
Add your comment for Idea: new income sourcesIf you would charge $1.00 for a car to enter into our parks and natural areas or recreation areas in all three natural resource agencies. You would make billions. Do not do what Wa. St. Parks did and start out at $5.00 and then two years later start telling everyone your raising it to $7.00. create a bill capping the amout at $1.00 for 10 years and then $1.50 for ten years. at that rate people will support it. in the fall you have hunters, hikers kyakers, boaters, snow park users, campers in parks and DNR and WDFW lands. Billions would come in on just $1.00.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Expand Animal Licensing
Add your comment for Idea: Expand Animal LicensingI suggest you...force all of the werewolves and vampires living around forks Washington to buy animal licenses and wear them around their necks.
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I disagreeThis idea is active.Economic Development »Fire the dead weight.
2 comments for Idea: Fire the dead weight.Fire all non-elected state employees who make over $100K yearly. Lower paid workers can and will keep the state offices and programs running as normal, they are the ones doing the work anyway.
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