Oregon Has At Least $11.04 Billion In Potential Surpluses of the Taxpayers Money it is not using.

www.cafrman.com ^ | not given | Gerald R. Klatt

[EBUCK]

OMG!!!!!! Look at this!

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[PokeyJoe]

Can you say . . . T A X C U T

Let's see if Oregon proposes giving people their money back, or if they say "how can we spend this extra cash?"

[EBUCK]

Spread this info to everyone you know, even liberals, socialists, commies, treehuggers, bums, transvestites whoever will listen.


My letter to every lawmaker in the state....

A friend sent this to me.

Oregon Has At Least $11.04 Billion In Potential Surpluses of the Taxpayers
Money it is not using.

Link...
http://www.cafrman.com/Articles/Art-OR-S1.htm

From the CAFR Network...if this is true and from what I can gather it
certainly is, what are you guys doing up there trying to raise taxes? You
had better hope this never gets out to the public because the fallout of
raising taxes (or even worse, measure 28 fails and you cut essential
services) when you absolutely didn't have to and lied about it will be
politically insurmoutable. And I fully intend to make this information as
widely spread as possible.

If there is a logical and rational explanation for you not using our money
(cheifly government profit) while asking for more, I would love to hear
it. I doubt that there is but I still offer you the opportunity to do so.


Best Regards,

[EBUCK]

Can you say "no incumbents" if they don't stop this crap immediately!

[Centurion2000]

"how can we spend this extra cash?"

Music to a liberal's ears.

[Cool Guy]

Employment Services made a FY 2002 profit of $68 million

What is this supposed to mean? The people are overcharged for the services the govt provides?

[dogbyte12]

Look. They ain't giving the money back. No way, no how. They are politicians. There should be bond measures put on the ballot though, if Oregon has a proposition system to spend the money now... instead of it paying for welfare in 10 years.

Road construction bills, allowing private contractors to place bids, should be done with the money. Tax free loans to companies that want to build nuke plants. Tax incentives for businesses to relocate to Oregon.. Free recipe booklets for Spotted Owl souffle... anything, because this money will otherwise go down the drain.

[OXENinFLA]

WOW!!!!!!!

If I was living in OR I'd be refreshing my knowledge of the word REFUND!

[EBUCK]

Well they certainly aint taking any more! I think we should tax their profits....the governments that is.

[blackie]

Cut taxes, log timber, mine for minerals, hatch fish, abolish the ESA, abbolish the UN, drill for oil in ANWR!

Be Well - Be Armed - Be Safe - Molon Labe!

[EBUCK]

REFUND?? that aint in my Oregon dictionary....

[EBUCK]

and rollover the previous years profits into the current years budget!!!! is that so hard?

[cake_crumb]

HOLY COW!!

[gundog]

If I was living in OR I'd be refreshing my knowledge of the word REFUND!

It means "fund again", don't it? I think that's why everything the Gubmint does is twice as expensive as when the private sector does it.

[EBUCK]

That's what I said! I'm stunned and for the first time I feel really surprised at the depth to which these people will go!

[gundog]

Did ya catch Kulongoski's comment that there were ways that funding cuts could be avoided, but to implement them would result in the government "losing credibility"? Hell...an admisssion like that would go a long way towards establishing some credibility with me.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Interesting considering they tanked the Oregon retirement bonds in the mid 90's on the PAMCORP fiasco. Is this money they were supposed to resupply that loss with?

[EdReform]

BTTT

[EBUCK]

From what I can tell, and I aint an expert...individual fund surplusses are just rolled over into their next years fund or retained as a safety net. No accountability for that money because of the way Oregon compartmentalizes it's functions.