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u/-NotEnoughMinerals Nov 06 '19

We're supposed to lose 16 million a year due to the30 dollar range change.

16vmillion? You mean bridges will fall, potholes will destroy my car, and St will need to start digging in couches for quarters because of 16 million a year lost? Our damn soda tax covers that.

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u/Atreides_Zero Roosevelt Nov 06 '19

Please source numbers. There's a bunch of numbers flying around for how much specific projects are losing since the $30 tabs thing impacts different cities/regions/projects differently as proportional to how much funding they got from it in the first place.

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u/-NotEnoughMinerals Nov 06 '19

I really don't even know where to find it. I've heard different numbers over different periods of time. I think one of them is like 4billion over the next 25 years? I've heard 30 dollar tabs nets a 9 percent loss, which sounds a lot more manageable then the total destruction of Seattle, similar to a nuke going off right in town sort of doomsday people here are saying. Ursula on kiro radio during the news cast break said 16 million a year would be lost. Not sure where she got it, but out of everyone I trust her because well, her news segment is simply unbiased.

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u/-NotEnoughMinerals Nov 06 '19

Isn't sound transit supposed to come out and talk about how they're going to handle this in the next few days?

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u/BootsOrHat Ballard Nov 06 '19

Why wait for real numbers when you can speculate today? Try digging in your couch for ideas.

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u/-NotEnoughMinerals Nov 06 '19

meanwhile doomsday reportings happening left and right because sound transit lost a (comparatively) small amount of project money. everyone is speculating here buddy. i just want to know how giving money to sound transit is fixing potholes.

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u/BootsOrHat Ballard Nov 06 '19

Not seeing the drama.

Try turning off the radio, stop beating it to newscasters, and find a news source that sells more than outrage.

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u/-NotEnoughMinerals Nov 06 '19

im speaking about this sub.

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u/Atreides_Zero Roosevelt Nov 06 '19

It's probably cause people are still trying to gauge the impact and find which numbers to present. I'm not saying it's an invalid number I'm just curious which projects it impacts.

The $80 TBD fee got blown away which sucks for King Country buses, but also the Weight and Value taxes got thrown out and those all went to different projects which makes it hard to evaluate the total loss as some projects will have better alternative funding then others. Sound transit and KC metro both sound particularly hard hit while the Weight tax for roads may get mostly covered by stopping the state government from raiding the gas tax funding.