saw this 10 second blip earlier on the news... followed by a 2 minute segment about 100 guinea pigs for adoption, how cute!



http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattle/separate-seattle-from-king-county-proposed-bill-could-eventually-make-it-happen/434030160


I'm not a praying man, but.... please, please make this happen!

OK?

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Sorry derrick but your address tells everthing about you and just how wrong you are.

The state would be much better, if Seattle centered itself. One party, leftist rule doesn't work.

Really?

Let's keep the discussion at a higher level than that, please.

They're two different things. As local agencies, they each receive property tax and sales tax income DIRECTLY. It isn't split. So people in Seattle aren't paying tax money directly to King County. Now, Seattle money does go indirectly to fund things like the jail, courts, deputies doing evictions, and public health, but Seattle is also a big consumer of those services. All of those things: jail, courts, evictions, public health would become the responsibility of Seattle COUNTY.

Not a cent of Seattle property tax or sales tax goes to King County roads, for example.

The reason the east WA thing makes no sense, is because the state derives income from *everyone* in WA. They get a special slice of the pie. So shifting that revenue to an empty low income state doesn't really work. But changing the sizes of counties within a state, not as big of an issue.

King County has a huge disparity in the services it needs to provide being the cradle for a lot of large cities (busy county roads, busy police dealing with meth heads from the cities who drive into the county to steal stuff). Nowhere in the state is the disparity in income vs obligated as large.

While I personally support this idea, I think it will never happen. What we need to do is reform state sales tax and property tax laws because they are clearly not distributing money fairly. In unincorporated King County, we are starved for tax revenue and have to deal with shitty roads and a very thin police coverage, all because the cities have annexed all of the high value dense areas, but contribute little to the county services they use.

The other obvious benefit, is that the King County Council is dominated by "Seattle thinking". Not just democrats, but people who live in Seattle and think the county's job is all about helping them. There are some democrats there who understand it is not though. It may surprise you but I am supporting a republican candidate, Kathy Lambert. (I live in her district)

Not sure why this came to mind...

I think the east side could fund king county along with the others southern king county cities. let the new seattle county keep burien and everything north of it.

Everything east of the lake could easily become its own county.

San Francisco is it's own county as well as city.

This idea makes a lot of sense around here.

Seattle is becoming a foreign nation.

Fixed yours as well.

As is Los Angeles, in both cases.


The main advantage would be to give those who are located in King County but outside Seattle, a voice in the political decisions that affect them. Seattle is pretty much the Big Cat in the Sandbox and shits wherever (and on anyone) they want to.

Instead of having to share council seats with Seattle, Cities like Shoreline, Bothell, Kirkland, etc, would have their own seat.

Same in other districts that share Seattle Voters.


Not only should Seattle be it's own County, it should have a tall fence around it. Let them support their own dumbassed giveaway programs.

They could run their precious ST3 around the perimeter of the city. In a circle.

Give them the boot or the pimp hand-- whatever is more convenient.