Now that King County voters have clearly told their elected officials that they would like to see Metro get its budget under control rather that raise their taxes, it remains to be seen whether Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and West Seattle’s contribution to the King County Executive’s office, Dow Constantine, will hear the message.
Even as both Murray and Constantine try to figure out how to raise enough taxes to get the support of folks like Socialist city councilor Kshama Sawant and other left-wing enviros, along comes the Washington Policy Center Bob Pishue with a different cure for what ails Metro—cutting costs.
Reducing the size of government instead of just raising taxes, isn’t that heresy in Seattle?
