Dear King County Council,

Siphoning nearly $3 million of regressive sales tax from Seattleites to subsidize building roads in wealthy suburbs like Medina, Bellevue, Yarrow Point, and Beaux Arts is unacceptable.

I understand the need to find funding for road maintenance in unincorporated King County, and that the King County Council has limited funding options available to it. But to use Seattle sales tax to subsidize wealthy suburbs instead of places that need it the most is deeply troubling.

King County Council must either remove this pass through to local cities and keep the focus on unincorporated King County, or eliminate the cap policy that would send Seattle sales tax dollars to wealthy suburbs.