I literally laughed out loud when I heard this one. Move over HOV lane, because the state is now offering an HOT lane. Yes, sports fans. That's right, the "Hot Lane" pass is available to drivers who want to buy their way into the HOV lane on some highways. Folks, they're gonna get your money one way or another. Tim Eyeman can flood us with tax cutting initiatives, and they're just gonna find a way to suck us dry. I love Bellingham, and I don't want to live anywhere else. I commute 85 miles each direction to my office because I want my family to have Bellingham as their home, but good grief... It is getting so expensive to live here that I really don't know how much longer we can afford it.

In the same discussion as the "Hot Lane" there was a discussion about how the state isn't getting enough money with 36 cents on every gallon of gas sold in the whole state, so now we are going to see a flurry of new toll roads and bridges.

Cha-ching!! Cha-ching!! The gravy train rolls along. Pretty soon we will be taxed on how much oxygen we breathe.

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