Seattle boasts the highest sales tax in the country — 10.5% — and it's about to get even higher thanks to a recent vote by the Seattle City Council. And don’t be softened by all the hemming and hawing, all the apologies for the regressive nature of the tax, all the empty acknowledgment of how this will disproportionately burden working people — they didn’t have to do this and they chose to anyway. In his recent budget proposal, Mayor Bruce Harrell proposed taking advantage of th...
