Rep. Walden, are you working for Oregon?: Editorial
(World News USA)

The Republicans` $1.5 trillion federal tax reform package calls for eliminating a benefit that will end up hitting Oregon and a handful of other states with high taxes particularly hard. So hard, in fact, 12 of the 13 Republicans who voted against the House version were from the high-tax states of California, New York and New Jersey. One Republican congressman from California recently blasted the bill, saying it would disenfranchise his constituents. U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Oregon Yet Rep. Greg Walden, Oregon`s only Republican in Congress and a powerful figure in the House, hasn`t said a word about the move to dump state and local tax deductions. The nine-term congressman voted for...