Oregon Republicans Who 'Got Out of Dodge' Victorious in the End: Ruinous Cap and Trade Bill Fails

Mark Ellis : Jul 2, 2019
PJMedia.com

Oregon state legislators were forced to sit on their hands in a derailed state capital while the clock wound down on a climate change mish-mash Democrats have been unsuccessfully trying to force on the Beaver State electorate for years.

(Salem, OR) — [PJMedia.com] Being a Republican or conservative in Oregon can be tough. There's usually not much to cheer about. State government is controlled by hard leftists repeatedly voted in or reelected by a Democratic Socialist base centered in "progressive" population centers. (Image: Oregon Capitol building/Pixabay)

But a few good Republican senators fought back the only way they could when a ruinous cap-and-trade bill moved dangerously close to passage at the hands of the state's one-party ideologues...

For a state GOP forever marginalized by Salem's entrenched left-wingers, it was a major victory. House Bill 2020 would have been a disaster. Rising fuel costs, confusing emissions swap favoritism, and the prospect of a mass exodus of living-wage-paying employers into neighboring states characterize the likely effects of the poorly-crafted bill. Fair-minded analysts on all sides of the climate change debate agreed that HB 2020's bottom line amounted to another social justice money-grab, for all intents and purposes a redistributive tax on productivity and economic health... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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