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Apr 11, 2012
choskasoft commented on Seattle Subway.
You seem to have forgotten where we live. We have three things working against mass transit in Seattle:
1) Money. (Seattle has it, but the politicians from the city and the Democrats in general believe we should send our money to all points East, North, and South of Lake Washington to people who cash our checks and spit in our hippie faces.)
2) The Seattle politicians who might support this are hapless fools. They will allow the suburban Republican politicians to tie them up in knots about taxes, whilst those same politicians insist that Seattle taxpayers subsidize their communities. Wouldn't want suburban members of the Sound Transit board to 'get a little queasy' if they believe that Seattle residents might lose our appetite for sending our tax dollars to fund their regional transit expansion in favor of doing something for ourselves.
3) The people of Seattle who never met a community enhancing project that they couldn't delay.
Now, this article adds a fourth reason. If The Stranger is for something, then the powers-that-be will rise to defeat it.
You guys should come out in favor of a surtax on all King County households making less than $200k per year, with the proceeds going directly to Jeff Bezos and Kemper Freeman as a thank you gift for allowing us to occupy the same county as them. When the State GOP rises to defeat that tax then you'll know the depths of their hatred for your publication.
I'd actually favor another legislative proposal. King County, or at least parts of it, votes to secede from Washington State. We keep our tax dollars. The rest of the state doesn't have to worry about living with us DFHs. Until that happens, we are never going to have nice things around here.
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1) Money. (Seattle has it, but the politicians from the city and the Democrats in general believe we should send our money to all points East, North, and South of Lake Washington to people who cash our checks and spit in our hippie faces.)
2) The Seattle politicians who might support this are hapless fools. They will allow the suburban Republican politicians to tie them up in knots about taxes, whilst those same politicians insist that Seattle taxpayers subsidize their communities. Wouldn't want suburban members of the Sound Transit board to 'get a little queasy' if they believe that Seattle residents might lose our appetite for sending our tax dollars to fund their regional transit expansion in favor of doing something for ourselves.
3) The people of Seattle who never met a community enhancing project that they couldn't delay.
Now, this article adds a fourth reason. If The Stranger is for something, then the powers-that-be will rise to defeat it.
You guys should come out in favor of a surtax on all King County households making less than $200k per year, with the proceeds going directly to Jeff Bezos and Kemper Freeman as a thank you gift for allowing us to occupy the same county as them. When the State GOP rises to defeat that tax then you'll know the depths of their hatred for your publication.
I'd actually favor another legislative proposal. King County, or at least parts of it, votes to secede from Washington State. We keep our tax dollars. The rest of the state doesn't have to worry about living with us DFHs. Until that happens, we are never going to have nice things around here.
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