We will be voting on a proposition where the (King County) Council has attached a road-maintenance tax to a Metro transportation tax that provides an estimated $3 million for street repairs to the city of Kent. The Kent City Council has been trying, over and over, to attach a tax on the citizens\/homeowners in Kent for road work that’s needed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The business and occupation (B&O) tax is the appropriate venue to raise money for road\/street repair because it is the businesses in Kent whose 16-, 18-wheelers are responsible for the hideous condition of our streets.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kent is the fourth largest small-industrial complex in the United States, and the businesses in Kent use heavy trailer trucks to import and\/or distribute their goods. The state of the roads is not the responsibility of the passenger-car owners in Kent; it’s the responsibility of the business community to repair what they destroy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I urge Kent voters to vote no on the latest attempt to burden us with taxation for road improvements. Hopefully the council will stop attaching road-improvement taxation to every other taxation issue \u2013 whether its parks or transportation. We are not going to tax ourselves when we are not the source of the problem. Instead, increase the B&O tax and eliminate some of the loopholes and exemptions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The B&O tax is the proper venue for funds for roads. Lay the bill at the feet of those responsible.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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