re: Five Oregon counties to vote on leaving state, escaping to 'Greater Idaho'

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Also, there are more "hard working" people in urban and metropolitan areas than out in the sticks. These cultural centers pay taxes that allow rural people to survive.

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Survive??? The rural people grow all the food we eat and the cotton our clothes are made from, harvest the timber and minerals we use to build, pump the oil and gas out of the ground for our energy, and do the lion's share of what's left of our manufacturing plus most of the fixing and repairing of our consumer items.

If everyone who lives outside of the 25 most populated cities went "on strike", our civilization would crumble into Mad Max-like anarchy in a matter of months, if not weeks. Conversely, if you shut down the notoriously corrupt Chicago political machine or the transgender junkie embracing Portland government offices, the people in southern Illinois and western Oregon would get by just fine.

Urbanites pay more taxes but most of that goes straight down the rathole of government grift and bureaucracy. And before you say "roads" those projects are funded by logical use taxes collected at the gas pumps. And before you say "schools" those are funded by local property taxes.

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Here's a hint...if you want to have a larger say in government, encourage your party to create a more inclusive platform

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It doesn’t need to be inclusive if you like what your elected officials do.

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"hard working"

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