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.
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”.
They’ll swallow a 6% sales tax in exchange for joining
the white ethnostate of their dreamsidaho.Or they will just shop in Oregon.
Most of them will have to drive hours, western oregon is about 4 hours+ across
It’s so fucking weird anyone would want to move to Idaho.