Goldy's tearing it up at his new gig over at Slog, where he has a post today responding to the Seattle Times' editorial supporting a tax on electric cars:

The Seattle Times, which has recently editorialized against nearly every single state tax increase, no matter the size, and no matter the purpose, even to save uninsured children from death and disease, because now is not the time to burden families and businesses with new taxes... has finally had a change of heart:

ELECTRIC-car owners should pay an annual fee in lieu of gasoline taxes to help maintain Washington roads and highways.

Legislation in Olympia would levy a $100 fee when an electric car is registered, and collect it again when car tabs are renewed.

Because, you know, if we're going to use our state tax code to disincentivize any economic activity, it might as well be the looming shift to all-electric vehicles. In fact, they appear to be so gung-ho in favor of this "fee," that the same editors who warned against appeals to "class warfare" when railing against both the estate tax and the high-earners income tax, subtly resort to exactly that tactic in advocating that we stick it to the EV elite.

Read the rest of Goldy's righteous editorial here .