I would agree, except there's fewer and fewer places to run to where they haven't tried to take an ever-increasing amount of our pay. I wouldn't object to any of this if the vote on such a tax were limited to the people who were actually paying it. But that isn't the case; the vast majority of Seattlians (or whatever they call themselves) are probably not "designer coffee" drinkers so they probably don't mind taxing someone else.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not necessarily against all government programs. A few actually work. But the problem here is that those voting aren't the ones paying. Its that simple.
It would be as if all the people in your community decided to add an income tax, but only to those whose name included the word "Jihad". Sure, you can vote against it, but you're the only "Jihad, C." in the phone book. Minorities enslaved by majorities = pure Democracy.