All or nothing gets nothing

Were the Seattle legislators who said that farmers could afford to pay the state’s new CO2 tax right after all? 

A recent report from the Washington State Department of Licensing shows just 6.5 percent of funds set aside for farmers to collect a rebate on fuel taxes assessed by the Climate Commitment Act have been accessed.

State Senator Joe Nguyen (D-Seattle) mentioned the low number of farmers applying for the rebates recently, highlighting it as evidence that the impact of the CO2 tax was small. It is, however, a bit glib to criticize the farmers and ranchers of our state for not filling ou...