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Pedestrian Plan Advisors Oppose "Head Tax" Repeal (PubliCola)

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Friends of Seattle is in the news.

Erica C. Barnett, Pedestrian Plan Advisors Oppose “Head Tax” Repeal, Publicola (1 July 2009)

The members of the city-appointed Pedestrian Master Plan Advisory Group, along with the advocacy director of the Cascade Bicycle Club, the head of Great City, and the president of Friends of Seattle, just sent a letter to Mayor Greg Nickels and all nine members of the city council opposing a proposed (and probably inevitable) repeal of the employee hours tax, AKA the “head tax.” The tax is a $25-per-employee charge paid by employers, which includes an exemption for any employees who don’t drive to work alone.

Read the whole thing.