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We have a great place for agriculture. We have the right climate and soils, but our cost of doing business is so much higher. The problem is Olympia. They just don’t understand agriculture — how we have to compete against other states and other countries.
Vander Kooy
March 17, 2026
What’s the matter with Washington? | Capital Press
I can not tell you how many people in the last couple of months have told me they have to leave Washington State. Today someone told me he and his wife were looking for a new place to live. The currently living in Lewiston Idaho. His wife found a nice home in Clarkston, Washington just across the river from Idaho where he has his own business. He pointed out to his wife what the business tax rate in Washington and that was enough to kill the Clarkston house without going into all the gun issues.
Washington State Democrats are full blown socialists, and some even wear that badge with pride. Socialism always kills businesses, they take your guns, and sometimes then murder their citizens, too. Don’t give socialists your support or your tax dollars. Move out of socialist states.
I saw the writing on the wall well over 10 years ago, and made the move from WA to MT 6+ years ago.
When are you moving?
Kurt
When I don’t need the money from my current job and Barb is ready to move.
I bailed from CO 15 years ago because I could see the writing on the wall there. I hope I don’t have to refugee again as I am really too old now.
The would be hard-pressed to be more destructive if they tried.
Ergo, I’m strongly suspecting that destruction IS the goal.
Let me rephrase:
I KNOW the goal of some of the people in power around the world is suffering, death and destruction, given things like this: https://xcancel.com/NicHulscher/status/2035762328503763012
I suspect it’s the goal of a significant portion of them here in WA state, possibly even a majority, but they can’t just come out and say that.
Four of my five grandchildren were from vaccinated parents. They are all healthy. My actuary contacts in the health insurance business tell me claims such as yours are, “Absolutely crazy. We see no evidence of that.”
And a reminder that in less than a year, you will owe me five ounces of silver for our bet about mass deaths and criminal charges for people related to the mRNA vaccines.
Sadly, this is where the road from secrecy and abuse of power leads. The COVID era public health establishment basically destroyed public trust. The damage from that will be far greater than the damage from the flawed vaccine.
High taxation and socialism aren’t the same thing. Although I could do with lower taxes, my larger concern is that my tax dollars are going to fund a war against Iran that’s entirely designed for the benefit of a corrupt oligarchy.
I genuinely don’t understand conservatives (“conservatives”) who claim to be all about small government and frugality and all the rest, who then turn around and support spending hundreds of billions of dollars bombing the middle east for no reason other than Netenyahu wants to. We “obliterated” the nuclear sites months ago, right? That was the claim, but apparently we’ll just find new sites to bomb as long as it’s convenient and then lie about our success there too.
Those tax dollars y’all are so worked up about giving to the government are being used to distract from the Epstein files and the fact that the president is a pedophile rapist (not that he’s alone, mind you…apparently QAnon was right in broad strokes, just not the details. And I can’t believe I just said that.).
Where’s the outrage about the corruption? 5 minutes before Trump made his latest announcements somebody bought a shit ton of market futures that just *happened* to predict what the president announced 5 minutes later. What a coinky-dink.
Conservatives in general and Republicans in particular have flushed any credibility on being concerned about government spending down the toilet for at least a generation.