Seattle families face shocking 19 percent electric bill hike as liberal leaders cash in on green agenda

If you live in Seattle, get ready. Liberals just keep making life harder and more expensive. Now, city leaders want to jack up electric rates a whopping 19 percent over just two years. That’s right—families already crushed by high inflation can look forward to even higher utility bills, all thanks to the endless failures of big government.

Those in charge claim the hikes are needed because of some so-called “infrastructure backlog.” Translation? Seattle’s leadership can’t manage a budget, can’t fix what’s broken, and definitely doesn’t put taxpayers first. They’ve spent years cozying up to green energy schemes, bowing to globalist climate activists, and ignoring real investment in the basics—keeping the lights on and the water running. Now everyday people get stuck with the tab for their embarrassing mismanagement.

It doesn’t stop there. The talking heads also say demand for electricity is going up, so rates have to follow. Of course demand is up! The left’s insane push for everyone to buy electric cars and “go green” is backfiring. Liberal policies keep forcing so-called renewable energy on Americans, even when the grid can’t keep up. The answer shouldn’t be robbing hard-working families so elites can feel good about themselves at the next climate conference.

Where is all that tax money actually going? Not to the people, that’s for sure. Instead, it vanishes into failed projects, special interests, and the city’s bottomless pit of progressive spending. Seattle spends more time worrying about its woke reputation than about keeping life affordable for its citizens. The folks in charge seem more interested in impressing faraway bureaucrats than in serving their neighbors.

Seattle loves to call itself a model city. But under leftist rule, it’s become a cautionary tale—a warning of what happens when common sense takes a back seat to utopian nonsense. Seattle families shouldn’t have to choose between dinner and power just to prop up some politician’s green agenda. When will the people finally say enough is enough?

Source: Just The News