Here in WA, our governor, Queen Christine, is trying to find a way to increase every existing tax, and new ways to tax everything else.

One of the new taxes is ticketing people for going through yellow traffic lights. It isn't really illegal, but they're doing it anyway, as a source of revenue. If you don't show up to fight it, you have to pay the ticket. If you don't go to work so you can fight the ticket, you lose your job money for that day. Now they want to cut the yellow light times down to four seconds -- if you try to stop too fast to stop in time and get rear-ended, you're caught, if you can't stop in time, you're caught, and if you speed up to make it through, you're caught.

It's a pity they weren't that creative when they were SPENDING the money.

Sue