Rural counties want to leave Oregon for Idaho

 Fox Business:

After 11 Oregon counties approved a preliminary vote to secede from the Democrat-led state, local leaders around the movement are explaining how the urban-rural divide has left them with no other choice.

"People in eastern Oregon have felt like their state-level governance has not heard them, has not paid attention to our concerns, and has not been working for eastern Oregon," Greater Idaho Movement spokesperson Matt McCaw said on "Fox & Friends First" Monday.

McCaw, along with Oregon business owner Sandie Gilson, supports the idea of having select counties elect to move their state borderlines so state-level governance would come from Idaho.

"The west side of Oregon is very populated, very urban, and very left-leaning, whereas the east side of the state is very rural, very conservative, and it's much more economically, culturally, politically similar to Idaho," McCaw explained.

Over the last two years, the Greater Idaho Movement has worked to gather constituent sentiment around the proposal. Business owners like Gilson sounded off on Oregon’s tax policy, detailing the burden taken on by a corporate activity tax.

"I hate it," Gilson also said on Monday. "It is actually driving out businesses, especially here in rural Oregon. We're losing pharmacies and other businesses like that."

"So every time a dollar comes into the business, over $1,000,000 in gross take, they are taxed on that before they pay their employees, before they pay for their cost of goods or anything," she explained. "It is a tax on the gross income of businesses, and it is killing businesses, especially out here in eastern Oregon."
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If the move takes place Idaho would become the third largest state in the union behind Alaska and Texas.  I can understand why the rural voters would reject the policies of the big city leftists.