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 Editorial Cartoonist Eric Devericks shares cartoons, sketches and a healthy dose of sarcasm when time permits.
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Posted by Eric Devericks at 3:20 PM  Eric Devericks/The Seattle Times Posted by Eric Devericks at 10:40 AM Here's just a few of the great cartoons I've read this morning. Tony Auth of The Philadelphia Inquirer did a great cartoon on the state of American health care. Henry Payne at the Detroit News has a solution for all you drivers of large SUV's when the price of oil hits $100 a barrel. If you've never seen Henry Payne's cartoons before, you won't be disappointed. I'm a fan of his work all around but especially the bold lines and crisp clean coloring. Update: I had to add just one more cartoon. This one is from Joel Pett at the Lexington Herald-Leader. Ouch, vicious cartoon, I love it.
Posted by Eric Devericks at 2:25 PM If you missed our editorial today you should read it. It goes great with my cartoon which I will post here again because so many of you liked it. Supreme Court shatters the people's will The Washington Supreme Court was wrong to shatter the 1-percent lid on property-tax increases last week. The Legislature needs to clean up this mess the best it can. Back in 2001, this page did not support Tim Eyman's Initiative 747, believing a 1 percent limit too tight. But we never imagined it unconstitutional. The initiative language was written by Jim Johnson, who later became a state Supreme Court justice (and who recused himself from this case). The limit applies to the total property taxes a district can collect. The total had been 6 percent or inflation, whichever was smaller. In 2000, voters approved an Eyman initiative lowering it to 2 percent. When a lower court threw that out, Eyman came back with I-747, setting the limit at 1 percent. By law, the 1-percent initiative had to say what it was lowering the rate from. When written, it would have to say, "from 2 percent." By election time, it should have read, "from 6 percent or inflation." But it was too late to write it over. The small print had the number wrong, but the Voters Pamphlet explained it correctly. Still, it was one of the simplest initiatives ever: Property-tax increases would be limited to 1 percent per year. In 2001, it passed with 58 percent of the vote. Now, Justice Bobbe Bridge tells us â€" backed by Justices Susan Owens, Barbara Madsen and two pro tem stand-ins â€" that the court needs "to protect the electorate from being misled." We believe the people need to be protected from having their will repeatedly denied by a divided state Supreme Court. The people had voted to lower the cap from 6 percent or inflation to 2 percent. A year later, they voted to lower the cap to 1 percent. And the court, including two pro tems and a lame duck (Bridge), now sets it back at 6 percent or inflation â€" all to protect the people from being "misled." The Legislature needs to reimpose a 1-percent lid. But in itself, says King County Assessor Scott Noble, a new lid would not be enough because last week's decision creates a backlog of taxing authority that districts could still use. Part of what happens next may depend on how eager taxing districts are to make the most of their new power. Gov. Christine Gregoire understands this and has urged local governments to restrain from jumping the gun. They should watch their appetites, because the people will be watching them.
 Eric Devericks Posted by Eric Devericks at 2:02 PM Anyone remember the original estimates for the cost of the Iraq war. They were in the neighborhood of $50 billion. A new study out today puts that cost somewhere around $1.5 trillion, slight difference. Here's and idea for a cartoon I came up with.  Chump? That's not very nice. Great Cartoons from around the nation Posted by Eric Devericks at 12:52 PM I read a lot of cartoons every day. In my effort to post more often I though I would share some of the cartoons I come across that I like. Scott Stantis is the cartoonist for The Birmingham News in Alabama. There have been a lot of cartoons about the falling value of the dollar lately but this is a good one. Ann Telenaes is a Pulitzer Prize winning free lance cartoonist. Her spectacular cartoon contains a crushing statistic.
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The Supreme Court thinks you're stupid Posted by Eric Devericks at 4:17 PM Eric Devericks/The Seattle Times
"A voter reading the text of the initiative would have perceived a much smaller impact on government coffers than would actually occur under I-747," the justices ruled. "The text of the initiative misled voters about the substantive impact of the initiative on existing law." You didn't really want to cap the increase in property tax at 1% per year as the initiative said. Poor, stupid you, you didn't know you were limiting your taxes a lot. You would have never voted for that! Luckily for you, the Supreme Court knows you're stupid and they have your back.
Proposition 1 is...well...um...not #1 Posted by Eric Devericks at 3:34 PM If you are a reader of this blog and you were reading last night, I blogged and did sketches as the election returns came in. I was happy with how it turned out and many of you emailed today to let me know you enjoyed it, thanks. At least one of the quick sketches I did is too good not to run it in print. This cartoon has almost no text and says it all. I love it.
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Election bloggin: Vocabulary on Prop. 1 Posted by Eric Devericks at 11:33 PM Here is the link again to the live election results. I think this one is going to be it for the night. Thanks, it was fun.  Eric Devericks/The Seattle Times Election bloggin: The Evil Trial Lawyers Posted by Eric Devericks at 10:57 PM  Eric Devericks/The Seattle Times They're coming for you! Posted by Eric Devericks at 9:59 PM
Approved 346,022 54%
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