Posted on 01/31/2010 8:03:44 AM PST by Big Bureaucracy
Oregon voters approved tax-hikes for the rich to close their $733 million state budget gap..........Union leaders and local democrats in Oregon cried for weeks how the rich (households earning over $250,000 a year) should pay their fair share or else the whole school system in the state will collapse. Folks in Oregon want their kids educated but apparently majority is not willing to pay extra for it and ordered somebody else to do it.
If they really wanted everybody to pay their fair share they would have voted tax-hikes for everybody not for just for few. Oregon voters decided to tax the evil rich and the out-of-state corporations. The middle class in Oregon wants somebody else to pay extra for the education of their kids. The poor in America don’t pay taxes anyway so their kids were learning on somebody’s paycheck even before the Oregon referendum.
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Why should we be surprised about Oregon? Government schools are our favorite middle-class welfare program. If the issue had been “education”, Nebraska might have done what Oregon did. Conservatives and liberals everywhere vote locally to steal from others for education through bond levies all the time.
Oregon must be full ot total nincompoops.
The rest of the States please make room for those prosperous Oregonians that will be moving to a city near you.
Whew.
I Guess OREGON is filling up with the CHEAP LIBERALS that realized they can’t afford to LIVE in KALIFORNIYA, anymore.
Move to OREGON, bring their HIGH SPENDING, HI REGULATING TAX POLICIES WITH THEM..
Once they turn OR into CA North.. then I guess they’ll move to WA ..
The businesses won’t be moving anytime soon because they are waiting to see what other states will do. WA state legislators are touting the Oregon law as a good thing. We have no income tax, so they are looking at putting one in, with a much higher rate on the high earners and businesses. Of course even without an income tax, WA state is one of the most highly taxed states in the country. Vermont has the highest as well as the slowest economy.
I would get the heck out of there if I made 250k or more.
I agree.This is unfortunately true. We all want social benefits, but hope some imaginary rich will pay for it. Long time ago people of America build with their own hands one room schools and those schools gave us enough inspired kids to make the US a superpower. That spirit is gone. Now folks wait for somebody to fix their schools.
Ben Nelson can’t even go have a pizza in Omaha without getting jeered. He’s burnt toast.
Chicago already got Boeing from WA. It is very possible business to move from Oregon too.
This scary prediction, but I agree. Communism is spreading in America
I wish Louisiana and Florida were more vocal against their own sweet deals in the health care reform bill
We all know there is nothing more expensive than free. Those who aren’t paying will continue to ask for more and more; what do they care? It’s all free to them.
That is true - we need fair tax that has the same rate for everybody - poor will give a cent - but will have to give something to participate in the society.
And well I know it, I was recently laid off as my job was moved to TN because of the cost of doing business in WA...and this after my previous job at the same company was outsourced to India.
The first thing that the state of Oregon should do as a start to curing all that ails them is to get rid of those hideous day-glo uniforms that the University of Oregon football team wears.
This is the lynch pin to then being able to fix everything else in the state.(;
Indeed. I remember when that happened and the local politicians acted like it wasn't a big thing, it was just the headquarters...the production remained in WA. I guess executives don't pay taxes and spend money in state in the twisted little minds of progressives.
Conservatives here in Oregon are working hard to change its direction however Portland voters really rule the state here.
15% of the Dead in Portland still vote for the DNC.
Pray for Oregon
There are at least 5 right-wingers here in beautiful Oregon...maybe 6. But when business’ start leaving in greater numbers, that may change.
How are you doing in TN? Is it any better?
My job moved to TN, I remained in WA, I wasn't willing to leave my kids for a job nearly 3000 miles away. Ironically, the company I used to work for is the same one that provides employment data that's used by the federal gov't.
I wonder if the company was being pressured to unionize under the SEIU? All government contractors are being forced to unionize under the SEIU to get government stimulus money and even the new tax breaks for small businesses.
I agree. Class warfare is stupid thing - it shouldn’t be made a policy.
I hadn't heard about efforts to unionize, but then again I stayed out of the usual rumor mill group of people. Ultimately, I believe it came down to the fact that the Fed Ex hub is in TN coupled with WA business taxes making the per employee cost higher in WA than TN.
The sad thing is that most of the people who will be hurt by Measures 66 and 67 are small businesses. The tax on them is on gross revenues, no matter how the business is doing. I envision a lot of them fleeing across the Columbia River into WA state.
BTW, this was passed because Multnomah County...bastion of all things leftist...voted 71% in favor. There are a lot of stupid, gullible people there.
UofO has the ugliest uniforms in the history of football.
another excuse for you guys to come back to God’s part of the country
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