I guess I need to move to King County Councilmember Kathy Lambert’s neighborhood if she’s so confident that her property taxes will be lower this year.

Despite my property’s valuation going down by 7.3 percent, the amount I owe went up 10 percent. What a deal. I hope Councilmember Lambert will forgive me if I don’t share her admiration of the city’s, county’s and state’s so-called cost-cutting measures.

Phil Hutchinson, Redmond