ADELE FERGUSON

Voters’ mistrust clouds fate for state income tax proposal

“I’M NOT VOTING for that income tax initiative, even if they do keep calling it a tax on the wealthy in the headlines, and I’m certainly not wealthy,” said one of my kin. Why? I asked, knowing the answer or at least suspecting it.

“I don’t trust them,” she said, them, of course, being politicians. “They say now that it’s only on individuals making $200,000 a year or couples making $400,000 and there would be a cut in property taxes, but how long would that last? Does anybody really believe they wouldn’t be dropping it to $100,000 or ev...