The Great Rush Limbaugh had this to say about liberals, economics, and taxation:

Hey, by the way, it was just pointed out to me that the left does understand how raising taxes reduces economic activity. How about the desire for increasing cigarette taxes, soda taxes? What are they trying to do? Get you to buy less. They know. They know that higher taxes reduce economic activity. It’s real simple. If you want more of an activity, lower taxes on it. If you want less of an activity, raise taxes. So if you want more jobs? [chuckles] It’s very simple. You lower payroll taxes. If you don’t want as many jobs, then you raise corporate taxes. It’s that simple, folks.

Well, our State of Washington sure seems to want fewer citizens to use the state parks, since they increased the cost of a Discover Pass by 50%. They really don’t want people smoking, since they doubled the tax on a pack of cigarettes. And they don’t want people using bags at the grocery store, since they increased the cost of any bag by 50%.