On Friday, the King County Transportation District voted 5-4 to raise your sales tax by a tenth of a percent. You didn’t get a say. You won’t get one.
I want functioning roads. My kids need to get to school. I’d prefer the bridges stay up. Roads aren’t free. We’ve got to pay for them. None of that’s in dispute today.
The dispute is how five elected people just decided, on their own, that they’d pay for those roads with your money, on a Friday, in a meeting most of you didn’t know was happening, with an authority the voters of King County declined to give them 12 years ago…