Seattle mayor considering raising taxes, fees and rates

carlconstantine said on March 12, 2010 at 1:44 PM

yessir - You got a parking ticket at band camp? Have you been back since? Maybe that's the reason that you never ended up with great bands like Vah Halen, Aerosmith, Queen, Bon Jovi, The White Stripes, or anyone else that actually made MONEY playing to sold out crowds. That parking ticket destroyed your entire career. You could have been somebody! But NO, here comes the parking ticket man killing your chances of a music career. Hah! Hah! hah!

unhappy said on March 12, 2010 at 7:05 AM

Five dollars is not a lot of money but the hot dogs are pretty good.

yessir said on March 12, 2010 at 5:39 AM

One time... at band camp... I got a parking ticket... never been back "sense"

carlconstantine said on March 12, 2010 at 12:19 AM

Don't worry. Seattle has a history of issuing parking tickets on holidays, in areas that are clearly marked as FREE parking on Sundays and Holidays. The City may solve the entire budget issue by doing this very thing. I had some friends that came from Russia and we spent the day at the Space Needle on a holiday and we spent so much money in the Seattle Center area that it was ridiculous. After the spending spree and good food at the Space Needle restaurant, we found a parking ticket on their vehicle. My friends said "Seattle is corrupt just like Russian cities." They vowed never to return to the Space Needle and have never been back sense. It's not about the money, since we spent like crazy! It's the principle of the matter...

jackwong said on March 11, 2010 at 11:57 PM

Stop knockin' on McGinn man! How could we of controlled the low snowpack this year? Just consider it bad luck and pony up the money. whiners.

gritz said on March 11, 2010 at 10:22 PM

What the Governor and I guess the Mayor need to understand is, personal income is not adjusting to the cost of living increases you are imposing on your constituents. I don't know how much further you can ask your citizens to pay before they say no. I have a sense that the normal average man on the street is tired of being taking advantage of.Good people are losing their homes. People on fixed income are making hard decisions between medicine,electric bill or food.Increasing taxes to cover your budget is the easy way out. This the time and place where I believe the hard decision has to be looked at.

dazed1 said on March 11, 2010 at 9:04 PM

Ran out of room in the last post! I would now ask. Who is responsible for this? Once we determine that we can proceed. My vote is for firing all the long term employees, and Slapping the manager silly!

dazed1 said on March 11, 2010 at 8:53 PM

What makes you think I would personally accept responsibility for everyones responsibility. IN OTHER WORDS --- Why would I choose to pay more taxes? Lets look at this from a corporate point of view. If you are the manager, YOU are ultimately responsible for the outcome. ( Corporate view = Manager manages, employee does what he is told to do by the manager). In this case the taxpayer is both the employee and the manager; Manager = manages. Whatever it entails the taxpayer has given up the responsibility of the job - elect someone to manage, then run and bury your head like an Ostrich. Employee = an Individual OR company that accepts an assignment based on the work vs compensation. We have hired individuals (politician in this case), that we as managers have decided to run things as they see fit! (Buried our heads in the sand) Granted (and Bravo) Mcginn, you found out that we are UNDERFUNDED/ OVER-BUDGETED! Is that MY problem or yours?

javajoe said on March 11, 2010 at 8:42 PM

Just as higher taxes on junk food is a deterrent to purchase it so is higher taxes in Seattle to visit it.

gritz said on March 11, 2010 at 8:12 PM

I dont mind paying taxes, I count it as a price of freedom. What I am having trouble with, is the appearance that nothing ever come from the those taxes. Yeah we have a new Narrows bridge, but it cost almost 10 dollars a day to go to and from.Light rail, what light rail? Who uses it? I see it when I go to the airport,but nobody is ever on it. I see a road crew once in awhile, but our highways have trash spewed all over, kind of embarrassing. It still takes over two hours to get to Seattle from Tacoma on a Friday and most times in the summer.There is no parking in downtown Seattle and nothing new has opened to draw new tourist in years.When family visits I hate taking them to Seattle it just isn't worth it.

yessir said on March 11, 2010 at 8:02 PM

ruba... please don't refer to the libertarians as "libtards".... there will be more "12 protesters at the Bellevue City Hall fountain" events. It was simply embarrassing to watch.

ruba61 said on March 11, 2010 at 7:12 PM

It's bad enough living in Snohomish county in regards to taxes ect... but i am so grateful not to be living in Seattle or King county for that matter. LIBTARDS GROUND ZERO!

yessir said on March 11, 2010 at 6:50 PM

Yeah... I have to agree... about time to scrap that whole tunnel idea

starteck81 said on March 11, 2010 at 6:02 PM

Nickles 2.0... nuff said.

detour said on March 11, 2010 at 5:54 PM

Taxes are fun!

usfbullman said on March 11, 2010 at 5:44 PM

You have got to do what you got to do. So if it will really help I am all for it.

anonymoususer said on March 11, 2010 at 5:25 PM

Just cut out the idiotic under capacity viaduct tunnel replacement and everyone can fund anything they wanted to - twice over - without raising any taxes (or creating new ones)

seahawks said on March 11, 2010 at 5:24 PM

How about all those managers that make $100,000 a year doing nothing come and as they please.Oh the SPU managers take cars home and make $100,000.I do not under stand how the CITY lets them take cars home they pay no gas,insurane,oil changes,new tires.And they live over 50 miles away must be nice.Someone should look in to this.

skippypotpiebaby said on March 11, 2010 at 5:02 PM

Just a good old boy network

yessir said on March 11, 2010 at 4:54 PM

The article did mention that the mayor would institute mid year budget reductions... that'd be "cut spending"

seattlecitizen said on March 11, 2010 at 4:39 PM

Here's a novel idea... instead of raising taxes, how about the city/government starts to cut spending?

factoid said on March 11, 2010 at 4:16 PM

Is anyone really surprised? The liberals are going to run this State into the ground, just like California. Why can't they take a page from New Jersey Governor's budget plan? Don't get me wrong, a lot of conservatives have become addicted to our tax dollars also. It's just that liberals are in charge right now.