The Binary Circumstance

The WA State Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved car tax reduction:

The state Supreme Court today upheld voter-approved Initiative 776, which strikes down local car-tab taxes that help pay for Sound Transit’s rail and bus programs as well as road projects in King and Pierce counties.

Question: Now that the court has said that Seattle can’t force the entire state to buy it a nifty light-rail system for this Christmas and the next and the next, who will buy the train for them? Answer: The entire country!

Sound Transit recently demonstrated to a skeptical Oklahoma congressman that, even if it lost its car-tab revenue, it still could pay for the $2.44 billion first segment, from Westlake Center to Tukwila.

The agency last week received a federal commitment of $500 million toward the project; groundbreaking is expected in about two weeks.

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