Seattle's parking tax anyone? Sounds coincidentally like the Tri Met tax extortion.
Mayor Greg Nickels today proposed a $1.8 billion tax increase to pay for Seattle's backlog of street, bridge and sidewalk repairs, plus a host of transit, bike path and safety improvements.
Nickels' package would be funded through a mix of increased property taxes, new taxes on commercial parking lots and an employer tax, which would be based on the number of employees who work at companies and organizations in Seattle.
If approved by the City Council, the mayor's proposed property tax increase would go to voters for their approval in November. The new parking and employer taxes could be imposed without voter approval.
The levy would cost the owner of a typical Seattle home $195 during the first year. The levy would grow at the rate of construction inflation, but would be capped at a 5 percent increase per year.
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My father has lived in Seattle his entire life. He says if they raise taxes one more time, he's leaving. I think a lot of people there feel that way. Too much is too much.
If the mayor of Seattle imposes his tax idea on the people of his city, then Seattle will start to look like Portland with a mass exodus of people and businesses alike.
That brings me to wonder if Vera and Taliban Tommy are advising Greg Nichols along those lines. Perhaps they are exporting their looniness northward.
hey, maybe goldschmidt has moved up there!
Fear not, Seattles leftist ruling elite has a history of voting down taxes that are not paid from all over the state.
Remember the Starbucks tax they voted down a couple years ago? That was for the benefit of the children and they flat refused it.
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