Seattle Weekly
Tue, Jan 11 2011
While you were busy living, the King County Medical Examiner’s office was quietly adding $50 to your tab for dying. As John Eric Rolfstad says of the cash-strapped county’s new death tax, “This is clearly a case of trying to balance the budget on the backs of the bereaved.” The executive director of People’s Memorial Association, which specializes in cremations, notes there was already a $50 tax on cremations, but as of January 1 the county extended it to burials as well. Among the first hit with the tax was a baby who lived merely one hour.
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