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Computers and Smart Machines make it easier to track sales taxes now. And other states have been dealing with it for ages...so if you're prepared to be taxed out of business in the future just to save a few extra expense dollars on accounting, keep the Oregon Sales Tax a myth instead of the inevitable future!
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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Well put! My soft fees are increasing three fold from what they already are for a LLC and Partnership Filing. So I am voting no on Measure 67 as it is very misleading! I'm considering a yes vote on Measure 66. I'd surely vote yes tomorrow for a sales tax in Oregon!!!
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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No on 67 (PART 2) By Don Welch Continued from Earlier Post
On a final, closing, note. We've reached a point in our culture where we consume more than we produce. A society like this creates a lack of jobs and severly uneven distribution of wealth. This is America, everyone has the possibility of living a fruitful and prosperous life. But we are soon reaching a place where those without will want those that "Have" to pay for the rest of us to have a decent life. That right is already before us and all we have to do is to go out and make it so. Don't expect your government to pay for your life, don't expect your neighbor to pay for your life, you need to secure your finanical future. In caution, the more we tax businesses and the wealthy, the sooner we reach a point of stagnation and decline in business development because why should someone work hard to make a business if they simply have to give all their earnings over to everyone else? When that happens, there will be no more jobs and no more state revenues. So in order to avoid a slide through communisum on our way to anarchy, lets get real about finding fairer ways to earn money for our much needed schools and infrastructure.
Please contact me with your rebuttle, input, and join me in reforming our economy in Oregon, and hopfully in are Nation as well!
Don Welch
donald_welch@comcast.net
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad - By Robert Kiyosaki
The Death of Common Sense - By Phillip K. Howard
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The US Constitution - by Thomas Jefferson and Friends
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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on Measure 67
As a business owner and real estate investor, I support Measure 66, however I cannot support Measure 67 with the same fervor. Voters are being misled in thinking that LLCs and Partnerships only pay $50 in taxes and that $150 is only another $100 in increases. The fact is that the $50 filing fee in Oregon is just for the privelige of doing buisness in our state. Increasing this administrative fee three-fold is unjust and the voters need to know that LLCs and Partnerships pay taxes on profits via "Flow-Through" taxation through the individual owner's personal income tax filings.
If we really want to be fair about sharing the burden of providing revenues for Schools, Roads and Emergency Services, lets get serious about developing a Sales Tax for Oregon. This is long overdue. A tax based on consumption affects everyone. And we lose much needed income with out-of-state visitors coming to our state and purchasing goods and services because they save from not paying a sales tax. In fact, the person that shops at Costco in Oregon but lives in Vancouver, WA is only taking money from their own community's schools, police force and fire departments. So let's solve this problem once in for all instead of asking those who work hard to bring business and commerce to Oregon to pay more than their fair share.
DW
Please see Part 2
posted 3 years, 4 months ago
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