Welcome to the West Coast, Messed Coast™ report, where we fill you in on what’s going on in America’s wokest, most dysfunctional, and most navel-gazing areas. This week’s edition starts with governmental extortion and ends with a way to deprive these bandits of your money. In between, Scott Wiener continues to aim his flame thrower at Christians.
What would you do if your state said it wouldn’t plow the roads unless the public approved a tax increase?
Be a shame if you got caught in a snowstorm
In Oregon, lawmakers are under the effects of seasonal extortion distortion.
The Oregon Department of Transportation refuses to plow roads, highways, and freeways, for which it is responsible, without a 35-cent-a-gallon increase in the gas tax.
Oregon Catalyst explains that taxpayers already suffered a check jack from these blackmailers:
Budget woes?
• The Oregon gas tax went up 5% this year.
• Oregon DMV fees went up 7% to 100% this year.
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