Legislators’ world doesn’t reflect the reality that loggers, truckers face

Sep 15, 2019 at 12:38 PM CST
As a board member for #TimberUnity Association, a grass-roots group, I recently attended the annual economic summit of coastal legislators in Florence. I wanted to hear firsthand lawmakers’ plans for the February session, specifically any attempts to revive the cap-and-trade tax that failed earlier this year. You see, I’m one of those truck drivers who stormed the capitol in June. As a rural, sixth-generation Oregonian, I’m one of the people Portland-area politicians think they’re saving by passing a climate change tax that they’re refusing to call a tax.

Sep 15, 2019 at 12:38 PM CST

As a board member for #TimberUnity Association, a grass-roots group, I recently attended the annual economic summit of coastal legislators in Florence. I wanted to hear firsthand lawmakers’ plans for the February session, specifically any attempts to revive the cap-and-trade tax that failed earlier this year. You see, I’m one of those truck drivers who stormed the capitol in June. As a rural, sixth-generation Oregonian, I’m one of the people Portland-area politicians think they’re saving by passing a climate change tax that they’re refusing to call a tax.