SEATTLE — An initiative that would cut car tabs to $30 will go to the Legislature for consideration, according to the Washington Secretary of State’s Office. Secretary of State Kim Wyman’s spokesman Erich Ebel said Tuesday that Initiative 976 brought by anti-tax initiative promoter Tim Eyman was certified after collecting enough signatures. The Legislature will decide whether to approve the lower vehicle registration and renewal fee as written in the initiative, but if it declines, the initiative will go to voters in November 2019. The Legislature also could write an alternative and put that on the ballot along with Eyman’s initiative. The measure would stifle Sound Transit, which relies on substantial car-tab taxes to fund light rail and bus service expansion throughout the Puget Sound region. It also would deal a financial blow to over 60 cities and towns that charge an additional vehicle-registration fee to fund transportation projects. While voters in the Puget Sound region imposed Sound Transit’s taxes on themselves by repeated approval for Sound Transit ballot measures, Eyman’s initiative would give voters statewide the ability to undo those taxes. Eyman has said that a statewide initiative is the only practical way to undo Sound Transit’s local taxes, because the Sound Transit district stretches over three counties, The Seattle Times reported . “Bring back our $30 tabs, baby,” Eyman said on Facebook Tuesday in a post about the initiative being certified. “Hopefully people recognize this for what it is,” Kelsey Mesher, advocacy director for the pro-transit Transportation Choices Coalition, told the newspaper.
Comment on Eyman’s $30 car-tab initiative headed to Legislature
Associated Press, The Columbian
Wed, 01/16/2019 - 10:18am
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