Superpowers

Editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

I read with astonishment your February 12 article “Doyle Wants Tax on Oil Companies: They’d be Pressed to Absorb Cost.” By thinking he can simply pass a law and forbid oil companies from incorporating their costs into the prices they charge, our governor apparently has the power to repeal certain laws of economics. I was not aware of Governor Doyle’s miraculous abilities before reading your article.

If our state’s government is truly this powerful, I propose that Governor Doyle and the state legislature take Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto’s advice and pass a law “mandating that auto makers manufacture perpetual-motion machines.”

Ryan Young