new gun tax in Seattle

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Oh my God this is too good. From paragraph 2:"The proposal, introduced last month by Council President Tim Burgess, is billed as the city’s solution to the $17 million in medical costs from 253 gunshot victims at Harborview Medical Center last year, which Seattle underwrites with public funds."

From paragraph 9:"Burgess contends the money, while it won’t go towards covering the city’s health care obligations on gunshot care...