A regional sales tax is absolutely the way to do it - tried and true method, used in many other regions, and causes very little pain. Your $8.99 t-shirt costs you $9.62 instead of $9.53.
Many people think this will require a constitutional amendment; though that is not entirely clear, an amendment would certainly allow it to happen without the legality of it coming into question. Then the RTA would be in a position, two Novembers hence, to ask the public to support upgrades [[which they would have to specify and sell).
The question is, how to get this done. The amendment, by the way, would only be to allow regions to have a regional sales tax by public referendum. It would not in fact impose any tax; yet it will face huge and daunting opposition.
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