The general public voting on whether taxes should be increased on only 3% of the population is effectively the "taxation without representation" that was redressed by the American Revolution.
Exactly. They’ll have to institute border controls between states to keep businesses and producers from leaving.
So are they voting to make a sales tax necessary? They are going to drive the wealthy out of their state, or drive them to hide their wealth.
Why I left when I graduated college (became blue devil in grad school). Endless spending, nasty and smarmy liberals, and the herd of “independent thought,” which worships radicals like Che. The characters dream of themselves as revolutionaries, but their “rebellion” is simply becoming serfs to mommy government. Good riddance. Oh, and it rains 9 months out of the year (I lived there 22 years, please do not try and tell me it is different).
The dim controlled legislature was beyond sneaky on this...they cut education funding and gave it to public employees so the election now turns on the slogan “It’s for the children”. Two recent polls are telling us both measures will probably pass(one poll by Tim Hibbits, the other for some freebie Portland newspaper).
Force the “rich” to pay even more taxes. They shut down their businesses, leave the state and head to N. Carolina or some other low-tax state, and put more people in Oregon on the unemployment rolls. Oh yeah, that’s the NYT, MSNBC solution for “fixing” the economy.
Fact: Tax revenues correlate with economic growth, not tax rates.
Many of those who desire additional tax revenues regularly call on Congress to raise tax rates, but tax revenues are a function of two variables: tax rates and the tax base.
Regardless of the tax rate, tax revenues have almost always come in at approximately 18 percent of GDP.
Of course they will not raise as much as they think, as the “rich” do business elsewhere.
This state is so full of idiots,we aren’t even allowed to pump our own gas!!And we built a special muti million dollar building, to focus group ideas to attract new business.Cut taxes!