I hate to piss in your cheerio's but the car tab fees imposed by Sound Transit are there to service the bonded debt Sound Transit has incurred in order to build their system.

Law prevents interfering with the repayment of that debt and since it's the car tab fees that are repaying, well, you can see the problem.


What's really stupid is that Sound Transit will continue to tack on car tab fees which will induce more and more people in the Metro area to get rid of, or just not buy their first, car. This will result in more demand on Transit but fewer sources of revenue.

For now I could give three flying F***'s as I live outside their extortion zone. If they do start imposing the fees on me, I have a daughter that lives 20 miles North. Guess where I'll be registering my vehicles when that happens.

The people who should really be taking to the streets with pitchforks and torches are those in areas that are having to pay the fees and sales tax for transportation projects that won't even come to their area for 20 more years. By then Sound Transit will be trying to raise more money just to maintain the system they've already built.

Sound Transit has already sold bonds for ST3, but Eyman’s new initiative, if passed, would require the agency to refinance or retire those bonds so that it could cut car-tab taxes.