5000% is a nice round number. Hell why not, they raised the taxes on loose cigarette tobacco by 2300% a couple years ago.
Welcome to America
What makes me just as mad is that they have about a 90 second piece on it on the morning news, so I go to the KING5 site and try to find the story - use Google Search, use Yahoo search, use their own website internal search and NUTHIN!!!
Anything that they broadcast on the air ought to be easily findable on the web site.
A reasonable man would expect that...