Sound Transit 3 would not have passed without an overwhelming Yes vote from Seattle. The tax hike still is reverberating. (Sammamish voted 52%-48% against this new tax.)
Dow Constantine, King County Executive headquartered in Seattle, proposes a $469m countywide tax for arts.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray proposed a $275m five-year city tax to combat homelessness. Then he dropped the idea and proposed instead a county-wide tax that would raise $335m over five years.
Seattle never met a tax it didn’t like. Despite the suburbs often rejecting new taxes, the overwhelming concentration of Yes votes in Seattle usually carriers the day.
It’s not Seattle anymore. It’s Seatax.
And Seatax fatigue may make it harder for Sammamish to raise taxes for new road projects or land preservation acquisition.
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