Jay Inslee: “I may just tell my colleague, we have got a lot of great corporations out there, too, that are being extremely…”

“I may just tell my colleague, we have got a lot of great corporations out there, too, that are being extremely responsible, and those sort of good actors are paying corporate taxes, the ones who are not polluting against the law, and what the President's proposal is doing is shifting the burden for the pollution of the bad actors onto the corporations as well as individual taxpayers. He is shifting the burden for the pollution off the bad actors onto the good corporations that are not polluting. So I mean it is not like just individuals are victims of the President's proposal here. The good corporations that are following environmental laws and taking care of their waste and recycling their products, and thank goodness I have got hundreds of them in my district, Microsoft being one. Why do we have to have Microsoft have to pay for some other corporation that is not following the law, that is dumping this stuff in the ground? So we are defending the corporations who are good neighbors and good community members against the perditions of those who are not, and George Bush is in league with those corporations that want to violate the law and dump this stuff in the ground, and we think that is just absurd and that is the best, most gracious language I can use.”