Nearly two years ago, I joked about making a deal with Massachusetts to give them Nashua. After Tuesday’s election, they might just take it. Way out west, eastern and central Oregon residents are working on a different strategy. They are trying to leave and become part of Idaho.
Who can blame them? Republican counties make up most of the state, while the densely populated coastline counties packed with Marxists decide its political color and fortunes.
But most of the land mass has folks with very different values. Ideas about life and living that their left-coast political masters despise. Divorce for irreconcilable differences makes sense.
The idea is to move the border of Oregon and Idaho to benefit everyone. Liberals would free up millions used to care for parts of the state where they’d not be caught dead. Conservatives would be free from the Lefty nightmare. And Idaho would get a good deal larger.
WHY SHOULD COUNTIES WANT TO BECOME A PART OF IDAHO?
1. American Values: Oregon will continue to violate more and more American values and American freedoms because northwestern Oregon has 79% of Oregon’s population and voters. Fortunately, Boise has only 13% of Idaho’s population.
2. Law and Order: Oregon refuses to protect citizens from criminals, rioters, wildfire arsonists, illegals, and the homeless, but then infringes on your right to defend your family with firearms. Idaho enforces the law.
3. Low Tax: Idaho is the state with the 8th smallest tax burden, and Oregon ranks 33rd, according to https://taxfoundation.org/tax-freedom-day-2019 . Combining all taxes together, including sales tax, the average Idahoan paid $1722 less in taxes in 2019 than the average Oregonian. That’s averaging together every adult or child, employed, retired or unemployed. Oregon tax rates continue to go up due to a lack of willingness to control spending.
4. Safety: Idaho allows forests to be managed to prevent destruction of housing from huge wildfires.
5. Thriving Economy: Idaho has less regulation than any other state, leading to low unemployment and a much lower cost of living. Idaho’s approach to regulation and taxation would allow our rural industries to revive and employ us again.
6. Representation: The ruling party in the Oregon Legislature only has two representatives from a rural district or from eastern or southern Oregon. But our reps would be in the ruling party in Idaho, where our concerns and needs would be heard.
On Tuesday, two more counties voted to join the movement bringing the total to eleven. There are six more counties affected by the plan, one of which has scheduled a vote. And it got me thinking.
We’ve nowhere to go in New Hampshire, trapped as we are between Canada and Massachusetts with Blue Vermont and Bluing Maine on either side. Are there any red counties in either state wanting to be part of New Hampshire that we’d be willing to have?
If not, maybe we should vote to become part of Idaho. It might be the only way we’ll rid ourselves of an insufferable Democrat congressional delegation
