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At a time when everyone's budget is getting hammered and layoffs are riddling our workforce, to continue to allow Oregon's corporations to pay ten dollars in income tax is immoral and stupid.

It is also wrong to grant our wealthiest taxpayers obscenely unfair tax loopholes while even the poorest wage earners pay their share. A vote against the revenue package while continuing unfair tax loopholes is a vote against average Oregonians.

No one is being treated unfairly under the revenue measures voted against by Senator Hass and his corporate allies in the GOP. Allowing the tax code to stand as it is -- that's grossly unfair to all of us.

Change your vote, Senator Hass. 

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If an Oregon business chooses to leave this state because its ten dollar income tax went up a few nickels, one wonders what sort of business this is in the first place. 

Many in the business community agree that the $10 tax is ludicrous, especially in light of the straits Oregon is in. 

As for wealthy individual taxpayers, when tax loopholes you could drive a truck through are closed, then we can revisit allegedly high marginal rates on the long-suffering wealthy.

Until then, the only people suffering from Hass's inexcusable tax flip flop are the poorest and weakest among us -- the ones who don't have the sort of access to Hass that (clearly) Deckert and his well-heeled clients have.

Change your vote, senator!

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65% of Oregon Big Business -- including PGE -- paid $10.00 in income tax.

Ten bucks a year.

Many wealthy taxpayers have lower actual rates than the custodians ditch diggers and clerks who work for them -- as Warren Buffet famously pointed out -- because so much of their wealth comes from investment, taxed at a lower rate than income.

Now (alleged) Democrat Mark Hass has sided with these good folks in preserving their tax havens. 

Meanwhile Oregon burns.

Re-think your vote, Senator Hass. 

Please.

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I'm an adult protective services investigator. As times get tougher, my business goes up. Exploitation, abuse and neglect of elderly and disabled Oregonians is through the roof, and yet adult protective services was on the legislative chopping block this year. 

It is a horrible conundrum that, as times get tough, public services are needed more -- and resources to fund these services shrink. It is especially true in Oregon, which doesn't have stable revenue sources for these services. 

This fact doesn't hit home until you need these services. As we age, more and more of us do. It's time to invest in ourselves, for  a change. Public services need stable funding.

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We are looking at the possibility of a $500 million tax increase, half of which is earmarked for a 30% pay increases for the Governor's already well-paid, top-tier state directors and friends.

With state employees looking at furloughs, layoffs, pay cuts and broken contracts, and with Oregon's unemploymemt rate at over 12%, this taxpayer-paid gift to the Governor's highest-paid cronies stinks on ice.

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