On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.
The parts of Oregon wanting this are rabidly anti-tax. The instant they find out Idaho has a 6% sales tax they’ll cry and come crawling right back.
They’ll swallow a 6% sales tax in exchange for joining
the white ethnostate of their dreamsidaho.It’s so fucking weird anyone would want to move to Idaho.
Or they will just shop in Oregon.
Most of them will have to drive hours, western oregon is about 4 hours+ across
Conservatives are super pro-sales tax because it’s regressive taxation. A common fake-libertarian argument is “we don’t need income taxes, we can just have sales taxes”.