LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Quornsum Advocates against the legalization of marijuana will often oppose legislation because pot it is bad [and you should feel bad mkaay?]. Still, in a famous 1991 interview, Nobel Prize winner and economist Milton Friedman told reporters that drug producers are essentially entrepreneurs and the legalization of drugs will…
by Micah J. Fleck In the name of what is perceived as fair, highly successful CEOs of companies setting up shop in Portland, Oregon will soon need to pay 10% more in taxes if they make more than 100 times more than their employees. So reports The New York Times: Moving to address income inequality…
By Chris White A lumber mill in Oregon is on the look out after learning environmentalists and conservationists may have jammed metal spikes in its logs in an effort to slow down or stop logging in the state. A green group calling itself SAP claimed on environmental website “Earth First! Newswire” that it used the…
Pundits are declaring Trump’s win in Oregon as some sort of major victory. Truth is, despite being the only candidate in the race, more than 30% of the GOP voters decided they would rather cast their ballot for a candidate no longer running. How this is supposed to signal the GOP getting behind Trump is…
New data released from the United States Border Patrol shows that marijuana seizures along the border have fallen to their lowest level in a decade, indicating that the illegal supply of cannabis coming from Mexico into the U.S. is on the decline. So what happened? Why would the cartels be sending less marijuana into the…
by Guy Bentley Vapers in Oregon could be hit with a massive tax increase if Democrats in the state legislature get their way. Rep. Phil Barnhart is sponsoring House Bill 4062, which raises the retail tax on e-cigarettes and e-liquids by an eye-watering 50 percent. The measure is still being debated and is some way off from…
Chris White Oregon Gov. Kate Brown called a militia’s nearly month-long occupation of Malheur National Wildfire Refuge “intolerable” Wednesday and says it costs Oregon $100,000 a week. Brown defied federal government requests to refrain from publicly mentioning the standoff. She told reporters at a news conference that she thinks public officials should wipe clean Oregon’s budget to make room…
After a three month sales tax “holiday,” recreational marijuana consumers in Oregon began paying a 25% sales tax on January 1, 2016. Yes, you read that correctly: 25 PERCENT. For those of you who went to public school and didn’t bother augmenting your economics education any further, this means that the actual price of recreational…
Connor D. Wolf Oregon Democratic Gov. Kate Brown unveiled a proposal Thursday to bring the state minimum wage to roughly $15 an hour, just a week after accepting a $100,000 union contribution. Brown has done little to increase the minimum wage in the year since taking office. She made the policy a sudden priority, however, after…
The militiamen who have seized a federal building in Oregon are furious after their calls for supplies resulted in droves of sex toys being mailed to them. The rebel’s siege hasn’t been going so well. That’s because the so-called survivalists failed to bring basic supplies to a standoff they intended to last months if need…