Vote No on Initiative 1163 to preserve services for seniors and disabled citizens.

This measure has the wrong priorities.

Raising taxes and eliminating services to pay for a costly unfunded initiative is not in our states or our citizens’ best interest. Taxpayer dollars for services for low-income seniors and the disabled should go directly to those needing care, not to a training program run by the state’s largest union. Because of budget cuts, many long term care services were greatly reduced or eliminated. Our state does not have money to spend on a special interest training program while cutting essential services to our citizens. It is more important to restore these services than to spend millions on additional training and background checks for home care workers.

The only way to pay for I-1163 without devastating other services to seniors and the disabled is to raise taxes.

If passed, the additional training and background checks required by this measure will cost taxpayers $80 million over the next two years when the state is facing another $2.8 budget deficit.

We support appropriate training for home care workers.

This misleading measure makes it seem like background checks aren’t required for long term care workers, when they are, and that Washington doesn’t have mandated training programs for long term care workers, when it does.

It’s absurd to raise our taxes, or further cut services, to pay for additional training and background checks for in-home care workers when they already exist in state law.

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