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What about those of us who aren't well off and calling ourselves tax fatigued?

I find it bizarre for people to bitch about our regressive tax structure and then pile on new regressive taxes one after the other all while complaining that the tax structure isn't being fixed.

Force some hands. Go after capital gains. Do something different than piling on regressive sales and sin taxes.
2
Rich, Prop 1 would add a 0.1% sales tax, not a 0.01% sales tax. It's a little pathetic to lecture people about what is or isn't affordable when you're innumerate.
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I'll never forget the thrill of going on field trips to the locks, WP zoo, etc. as a public school kid. Thank you, previous generations. I'll do my best to pay it forward however I can.
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#3 and kids who have had the bad judgement to be born in a home that does not have that respect are just out of luck, eh?
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Sargon, Prop 1 aims for a higher bar. They're not just trying to teach kids to respect music, they want kids to pick up and instrument and then teach them how to play. Most parents won't be helpful for that.

They want kids to paint, blow glass, write poetry, build a mini robot, hold a starfish, and write their own play. Most of what Prop 1 will do cannot happen at home and probably not with guidance and expert instruction.

And The Misanthrope, sure. Arts leaders will change the tax structure of Seattle because they're experts at that sort of thing. You're really talking to the government. Don't take it out on them.

Go Prop 1!!!
7
Prop 1: nice-to-have, not a must-have.
8
Not every great idea warrants its own government program. The sales tax is maxed out. You can't keep going to the same well anymore.
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@8:

When one well is all you have, you literally have to KEEP going to it.
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"When one well is all you have, you literally have to KEEP going to it."
Well, if you give up looking for other wells, I guess this is true. But at some point, a consensus will realize that there needs to be another well dug. This will happen when people will really communicate, (the first part of which is listening to others who feel differently) the benefits of digging that well. Continuing to sing in our choirs, oblivious to the other choirs, will change nothing. We must be willing to understand why someone would vote the way they do, so we can share why we vote the way we do. We have become a siloed society. We need to bread out of them.
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"When one well is all you have, you literally have to KEEP going to it."
Well, if you give up looking for other wells, I guess this is true. But at some point, a consensus will realize that there needs to be another well dug. This will happen when people will really communicate, (the first part of which is listening to others who feel differently) the benefits of digging that well. Continuing to sing in our choirs, oblivious to the other choirs, will change nothing. We must be willing to understand why someone would vote the way they do, so we can share why we vote the way we do. We have become a siloed society. We need to break out of them.
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@10/11:

The only other viable well would be a state income tax, and that is simply never going to happen.
13
The people pushing for this pointless regressive tax clearly have never lived in poverty before. Even the smallest amount of money that goes out of your pocket only means something else doesn't get paid.
14
Prop 1 is officially defeated.

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