The article about the teachers of Northshore voting to consider an action that is still against the law, going on strike, and then listing their grievances, besides pay, as worthy of civil disobedience… it’s really all about one thing… more taxes, the teachers are being used to push us into voting for an income tax, it will be on the ballot in November… again.

Are there enough teachers? Not according to the union who gets dues from every teacher so the more teachers the more money in their union coffers. Are the substitutes “qualified”? Based on what? And who decided the support personnel were a few bucks short of “comparable county employees”?

The teacher strike was invented to push us into changing out tax system, an income tax makes it easy to divide and tax parts of our citizens so we can’t unite. How ironic that the teachers are protesting division in negotiations even though there were two separate unions until they voted to combine.

Beware voters. The teacher’s union is blowing smoke but there isn’t a fire unless they lit it just to herd the voters into voting for the income tax on November’s ballot.

Margaret Wiggins, Kirkland