I Hear You, I Hear You

Bill Clinton should have known his energy tax was in jeopardy when lobbyists who opposed it offered the people of Billings, Montana, a free lunch of cold cuts and chocolate cake. Citizens for a Sound Economy, a Washington antitax group, placed full-page ads earlier this month in the Billings Gazette, inviting residents to a noon rally to learn the evils of the President's proposed tax on the heat content of fuels. More than 150 people -- a virtual mob by Big Sky standards -- gathered at a downtown hotel to hear a Washington economist explain that the tax would cost every...