Don’t send Seattle’s tax dollars to Medina or Clyde Hill!
SEATTLE – City Councilmember Eddie Lin (District 2) released the following statement on a new sales tax proposal from King County.
“The King County Council is considering a new 0.1% sales tax to fund county road maintenance, administered through King County’s Transportation District. They are considering an amendment that would result in wealthy suburbs like Medina, Hunts Point, and Clyde Hill receiving a disproportionately high amount of sales tax dollars, subsidized by Seattle taxpayers.
“Under the proposed amendment, Seattle would receive the lowest per capita amount of sales tax dollars of any city in King County. We would miss out on roughly $30 million over 10 years — critical dollars for our roads and public transportation.
“Seattle residents and businesses collectively contribute around 40% of the sales taxes that the county collects, and now the county is proposing to single us out to receive significantly less than every other city — forcing us to subsidize roads for some of our wealthiest neighbors. This is unacceptable,” said Councilmember Lin.
On Tuesday, June 9, eight Seattle City Councilmembers signed a letter, authored by Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck, sharing significant concerns with a proposal that would cap the amount of funding going to Seattle and redistribute those funds to small, wealthy suburbs.
“I am grateful to Councilmember Rinck and my colleagues for speaking up to oppose this new regressive tax on Seattleites to pay for infrastructure in the county’s wealthiest communities. I encourage Seattle residents and businesses to make their opinions heard before Friday’s vote at King County Council at 1:00 p.m.,” said Councilmember Lin.
Members of the public can submit comments to King County Councilmembers by sending e-mails to TransportationDistrict@kingcounty.gov. Public testimony will also be accepted in person or virtually at the next meeting of the King County Transportation District on Friday, June 12 at 1:00pm. For more information about how to provide public testimony, please view the published meeting agenda.
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