Oregon?! You can’t be free with an 11% state income tax amd nannyism up the wazoo.
Oregon has state healthcare heard a story of a cancer patent was rejected by the government to provide her with the medicine to keep her alive so they offered a pill to kill herself. Please disregard the source and post here.
Let’s see - Washington state East of the Cascades. Central and Eastern Oregon (The Willamette Valley if you could just nuke Eugene). Northern California (north of Sacramento. All of Idaho after a bit house cleaning in Boise. All of Montana and Wyoming. Alberta and BC in Canada. Alaska.
You’d have the makings of a pretty decent country...
Oregon’s pretty free. We have no check point stops as other states do and we are a must-issue state for CCW.
CCW is allowed in parks, bars, sporting events and public gatherings.
Full-auto weapons and suppressors are pretty easy to buy, depending on the local law enforcement officer.
We have no sales tax, we have a good system of initiative, recall and referendum.
Eminent domain and seizure of assets with no guilty plea are pretty well constrained.
All in all, once you get out of the the three liberal Northern counties/metro areas, Oregon is pretty rural and pretty conservative.
Ed