Commercial property tax base in Everett could have increased much more over the past 30 years if Snohomish County had bothered to add commercial air travel service. The population base has long warranted local service to attract businesses to Snohomish County and Everett, but we allowed luddites to sabotage those efforts, sending most of the valuable high-tech business development to King County and Seattle. 

unSound Transit is also a massive tax revenue leech, sucking much needed taxation capacity out of Everett and Snohomish County to fund gold-plated white elephants, like the idiotic light rail between Downtown Seattle and Seatac that meanders there slowly through a gang-violence zone, and the obscene baby subway from Downtown Seattle to the U-District.