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This Modern World
by Tom Tomorrow, The Source - Bend, Oregon
June 19, 2019






America envies Oregon for we have the brainy Gov. Brown who wants to tax rural Oregon silly so she can virtue-signal via a version of California’s unpopular and wholly ineffective cap-and-trade while China and India (both exempted from the Paris climate accords) add a coal plant per week. Real positive effect on the world’s emissions? Zero, especially when compared to the positive effect of increased natural gas usage. What’s next, a solar-powered bullet train between Portland and Bend funded with $1,000 annual taxes on pickup trucks? Wind-powered detention camps at Portland State for any new Oregonians expressing conservative ideas? Now, that’s BRAIINNNSSSS! Who’d have thought we’d find such a smart elistist career bureaucrat like Kate Brown to Californicate Oregon?