1) Reduce prices of car tabs and thus encourage more people to drive
2) Make it harder to keep roads in driveable condition
3) ???
4) Profit
But I save $300 a year! Got mine!
That says more about the rest of the country than it does about Seattle, TBH.
Sure, but we are definitely in our own little bubble, for better or worse. I always have to remind myself of that whenever I travel. It stuns me what people are happy about when we visit my wife's family in Omaha.