[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Are you telling me this whole thread you went bonkers over the number without a clue about the substance of the tax or if it was needed? Seems thin to me. You may have drank the koolaide too fast.

Yup, that's it. You got me. </sarcasm>

I can see now why you have a 38" waist.

You are L-A-Z-Y with a capital "L".

I only posted this info twice on this thread. (HINT: SEE POSTS #104 AND #198)

Naturally, you're too lazy to go to google.com and type in measure 30, oregon.

[A CA Guy]

No, I'm at a 34-35 right now and exercised 3 hours in Racquetball Sunday. I could be in better shape, but am not in the worst by a long shot.

Thanks for providing 104, all you had to do was point it out to me.

It is a form of exactly what happened to us with Gray Davis as he grew the government by 40% as the revenues only increased by 25%.
Our debt due to that bastard is 19 BILLION.

Guess what, we passed a bond rather than a state bankrupts and we will have to pay it.
We added another balanced budget amendment to the mix to offset attempted future spending.

This is all a result of folks believing in government that the revenue from all the stock gains would never end.

I don't like the tax form directly and would have suggested that Oregon pass a bond and balanced budget amendment as we in California have done.

You can't bankrupt the state. No way you can cut all at once what was needed, so a bond should have been pursued, and later revenue would have had to be paid by increased taxes YES.
Or they could TAX not temporary.

It would be unlikely they could gut the budget and throw mental patients on the street. Not likely to happen.