You seem to never take a break from flowering our congressman, Rep. Jay Inslee, with praise. Why don’t you ask him why he took his wife on his $1,000,000 trip to Copenhagen? Or why he now thinks there should be a tax on the emission on carbon dioxide?

“We tax smoking, don’t we?” asked Inslee in recent television appearance.

Wait! You just exhaled. Don’t tell Jay. That’s taxable, right? You printed your paper? On machinery? Taxable. That coffee. Some of that steam is actually carbon dioxide. Tax it! Don’t even get him started on the evils of “computers.”

(Check out http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/25/cbsnews_investigates/main6140406.shtml).

Martin Stever

Bainbridge Island