Another big ballot battle is brewing on the cost of car tabs
OLYMPIA — The cost of those tiny car tabs will be at the center of another big ballot battle this fall.
Initiative 976, the latest handiwork of Tim Eyman, seeks to cap car tab fees at $30, erase most of the motor vehicle excise tax collected by Sound Transit, and wipe out fees now imposed by cities through transportation benefit districts.
If approved on the Nov. 5 general election ballot, and if it withstands an almost certain legal challenge, it would siphon off millions of dollars flowing into accounts used each year to buy buses, expand transit service, repave streets, maintain ferries, build roads, fix bridges and run the Washington State Patrol.
And it could force Sound Transit to delay or discard elements of its voter-approved ST3 expansion which is supposed to bring light rail service to Everett, Tacoma and Eastside cities in the next 20 years.
Collectively, the financial impact stands to be more far-reaching than Eyman’s previous car-tab targeting measures which voters embraced in 1999 and 2002.
He said blame the state, local governments and Sound Transit, for they’re the ones piling taxes and fees onto the annual registration bills.
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The latest scam by that grifter Tim Eyman. Never mind that the voters in the Sound Transit district approved those taxes.
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