Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson faced backlash from Seattle City Council member Bob Kettle on her plan to raise the city’s transit sales tax from 0.15% to 0.30%. Kettle voiced concerns about affordability and proposed a smaller increase of 0.05%, Seattle Red reported Friday.
KIRO host Jake Skorheim questioned why the city needed another tax at all, noting the tax would fund transit services for the next decade with an annual price tag of $138 million. That means more than $1 billion over the next 10 years.
“That’s a lot of money,” Jake said on “The Jake and Spike Show” on KIRO Newsradio. “Why don’t they just live within their means? Why don’t they just try that? Why don’t they just do the crazy thing instead of all the things that they’re doing right now to scare businesses away, which then shrinks your tax base, which then means that you’re pulling in less money.”…