Fuck. Fuckity fuck fuck. Fucky fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.

You've got an 'I-1063' in there that I assume should be an 'I-1053'.

Goldy calling people hypocrites. This is rich.

@3: Well, I laid out the case for call the Times editors hypocrites: how they argue to the respect the will of the people when it comes to an initiative they like, but urge lawmakers to ignore the will of the people when it comes to an initiative they don't. Hard to argue with that being a hypocritical line of reasoning.

So if you're going to imply that I'm a hypocrite, why not support the implication with equal detail?

Detail.

Shameless hypocrites, like people who preach the pro-environment line, yet idle in rush hour traffic twice a day or live in single-dwelling homes?

@6: Gosh, you're lazy. Now try to explain how that post makes me a hypocrite.

Of course, you can't, because there's nothing hypocritical about that post. I complain about how personally irritating/costly I find the new tolling regime to be, and then restate my support of it. As I wrote, I don't have to like a policy to accept it as a public good.

The fact that you can't wrap your little mind around that concept, says more about you than me.

SLOG suffers from the same level of hypocrisy.

Tolls for the Viaduct tunnel = GRIDLOCK CARMOGEDON!

Tolls for the 520 bridge = Makes sense, its clearly needed to fund the bridge.

Try again Toby,

Times editorial board workflow:

Will theoretically cost Frank or Ryan any money (YES/NO)

If no, the people have called for it / ENDORSE

If yes, the people are opposed to it / OPPOSE

What @11 said. You can't expect a business that benefits from the following statute to be coherent when it comes to tax policy.

RCW 82.08.0253
Exemptions — Sale and distribution of newspapers.

(1) The [retail sales] tax does not apply to:

(a) The distribution and newsstand sale of printed newspapers; and

(b) The sale of newspapers transferred electronically, provided that the electronic version of a printed newspaper:

(i) Shares content with the printed newspaper; and

(ii) Is prominently identified by the same name as the printed newspaper or otherwise conspicuously indicates that it is a complement to the printed newspaper.

(2) For purposes of this section, "printed newspaper" means a publication issued regularly at stated intervals at least twice a month and printed on newsprint in tabloid or broadsheet format folded loosely together without stapling, glue, or any other binding of any kind, including any supplement of a printed newspaper.

Uh, oh. Goldylocks is hyperventilating again. Calm down and then march over to the Seattle Times and hit them with your purse, pussy.

Meanwhile, IRL, the Western Approach of 520 is still unfunded and so is most of the Deeply Borrowed Tunnel.

I smell taxes. Taxes paid by poor people, while the tax giveaways to the Rich and Corporations grow bigger and bigger and bigger and ...

Well, folks, you'll have nail down an official confirmation, but the scuttlebutt from an insider at a recent Occupy Healthcare meeting is that the measly $250,000 per year that the state spends to provide malpractice insurance to volunteer doctors at community health clinics is on the chopping block. This in turn is going to cost community health clinics lots of volunteer physicians and millions of dollars worth of their services. And this will in turn make health care even less accessible to Washington's bottom quintile (who of course bear the heaviest state and local tax burden under our hyper-regressive tax system).

Why is this relevant, you ask? I just thought it was a good opportunity to remind everyone how grateful we should all be to the sociopathic, solipsistic pigs who shilled for I-1053 (two-thirds legislative supermajority for tax hikes) and who shilled against I-1098 (income tax on the rich + property tax cut for everyone + B&O tax exemption for more small businesses). In all probability, some people will actually die because of Washington millionaires' greed. I hope the self-serving Blethen family and their fellow advocates of regressive taxation will step forward and take due credit when the cases start rolling in.

Regardless of other issues, this is a clear and egregious instance of substantial hypocrisy, and the sea times absolutely should be slammed for it.