Senator Schoesler's Perspective

July 27, 2011 – There are times when the language we hear in news reports about the president and Congress sounds very familiar.

The debt-ceiling debate, for instance, has people talking about the debt limit and more revenue versus spending cuts and “shared sacrifice.”

All those words and concepts were in abundance during the 2011 legislative session; even the idea of taxing private jet owners, floated by members of Olympia’s majority party in late February, has been brought up lately in Washington, D.C.

Fortunately, all those discussions were put on hold about two months ago, when the Legisla...