*What’s going on in Washington State? Yeah, just the usual.

What's "The Usual" you ask? Let's start with high gasoline and diesel prices. Per our local legacy media, Washington State has the second-highest gas prices in America. For example, here are some of my local gas station prices from earlier this week. Some are higher today! This KOMO Story tells us that the statewide average …

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*I wish I didn’t have to keep writing these posts on Washington State, but the depressing news just keeps coming.

Have Dementors taken over my state of Washington? It certainly is depressing, reading news stories of taxpayer money thrown away with both hands; big companies that have been here for decades announcing moves to other states; local restaurants, individual and chains, closing down for good; illegal aliens being treated better than taxpaying citizens; heavily-taxed roads …

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*The People of Ireland have had enough.

Faced with hotels full of "asylum seekers", streets full of trash, huge barracks for adult, fighting-age men from Africa and the Middle East in their rural towns, and imprisonment for noticing and objecting to the foregoing, the people of Ireland are showing their displeasure at their government. Recently, they have been subjected to confiscatory fuel …

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*SMASH! BANG!! OW!! BOOM! OOF!! And the blows just keep coming for Washingtonians.

All day, every day now, more and more information comes to light regarding what our "elected" officials are raining down on the law-abiding, tax-paying citizens of Washington State. They are getting us coming and going, literally. Washington State has one of the only Death Taxes in America, and it is the highest of any state. …

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Scenes from Rural Michigan, in the Snow

Last week, we were in Hillsdale, Michigan, in the south central part of the state. It is a relatively poor region, with no big cities, mostly small to medium-sized towns. Allen, along US12, is a center of antiques, with many dealers along the highway. I never tired of the drive from Hillsdale to Coldwater, where …

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A thought on the price of gasoline

Think of it this way. They (the government) tax motor fuel, which society needs second only to water, the way they price alcohol and tobacco. They load it up with multiple different taxes (sales taxes, cap-and-trade taxes, energy taxes, weight taxes, road-use taxes), and in some places the tax burden is higher than the price …

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