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We should be celebrating passage of mental health tax. Instead, we're holding our breath
They always needed five.
For as long as the Pierce County Council has been debating the potential passage of a one-tenth of 1 percent sales tax increase to fund behavioral health services — which dates back years and several iterations of the elected body — that’s always been the magic number.
Five has always been the sticking point.
Until Tuesday evening.
That’s when — at long last — a solid, across-the-aisle agreement was finally reached. Generously, it wasn’t a Christmas miracle as much as it was the overdue culmination of too many studies, too much talking and too much wasted time.
Read more: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/matt-driscoll/article248044855.html
(Tacoma News Tribune)