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Unfortunately, you are right. Campaigning for ballot measures is an ugly business and wasteful. However, in Oregon, where ignorant people trust radio and TV shock jocks rather than the government leaders they elected to do their job, we must put up with this mess. Oregon has a great tradition of legislative accomplishments like the bottle bill, public beaches, and land use planning. The tax hikes included in measures 66 and 67 were passed by state leaders we put in office. They did their job and pissed off the conservative Republicans in this state. Out of state interests who subscribe to the conservative agenda bankrolled the process of getting measures 66 and 67 on the ballot. Once that was done, each side had to spend millions to out shout the other side, hence the misleading ads. Since you distrust the misleading fight over these important measures, I suggest you forget everything that you have read, seen or heard during the course of this campaign and trust that this issue should have never been brought to a public vote in the first place. If you do that, you will vote yes not because of any misleading ads, but because you trusted that your state of Oregon legislature did the right thing in the first place after hearing all of the arguments that are being dredged up again in this campaign.
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The Hippocratic Oath that all doctors take is First, Do No Harm. By not stepping up to the plate and paying your fair share of taxes you are doing a lot of harm to those less fortunate in this state-elderly, mentally ill, low income school children and others. Also, if you leave the state, you are leaving 6 people unemployed. Living in such a beautiful area as central Oregon and doing such good work should more than compensate for your monetary loss.
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Let's pass something now and stop the bleeding of public services. You can always amend this law later.
posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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How is shifting the tax burden to the high income earners disproportionate? Measures 66 and 67 are attempts to balance the tax burden between middle and higher classes. Individual income taxpayers in this state have borne the brunt of raising government revenues in the past. It's time that corporations and small businesses that can afford it pay more than $10 in taxes per year. A band-aid is better than nothing and it's a step in the right direction.
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And we can thank Bill Sizemore and Bob Tiernan for that and all of the other corporate shills and misguided voters in this state.
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I'm a substitute teacher who has seen his workweeks decline from 4 days a week to 1 or 2 days a week because of budget cuts in my school district. At $18/hr, that comes out to less than what you're making a year. I won't take no for an answer. Vote Yes on measures 66,67.
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State legislators don't make that much and they work very hard to earn their money. Some people consider politics a dirty word and public service to be something trashed. It's not. Politics is the art of making compromise and requires dedicated and intelligent public servants. They represent their constituents and don't stay in office very long if they fail. Support our elected officials and vote yes on measures 66 and 67.
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Main Street will bring this country back not Wall Street.
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Thumbs Up!!!
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Change and choice in education need money. Vote yes on both measures to see effective change.
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Don't forget to close the door when you leave.
posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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Don't despair. Just vote Yes on both measures. It will do your body and mind good.
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If it's not Kool Aid, it's probably the tea served by those Fox News sponsored tea baggers.
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I agree with Steve Novick's comments. He knows what he's talking about, unlike some of the people who have chimed in on this blog.
posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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Too bad you didn't mention the fact that your losses are a tax write off and reduce your overall state and federal taxes. When you crank those numbers together, I'll bet your tax hike won't even be felt.
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Why punish children, schools, mentally disabled and the elderly because you have a beef with the correctional system? A NO vote is like killing a fly with a bazooka. It's overkill. vindictive and misguided. I would trust the people working in state, county and city governments over your tortured logic any day.
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I am a special education teacher who sees these children in the schools and I share your concern about the effects of cuts to mental health services if Measures 66 and 67 fail.
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Why don't you take action and run for public office and see if you can do better. Actions speak louder than words.
posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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The Archdiocese of Portland has endorsed both measures 66 and 67 (Catholic Sentinel) because it is the right thing to do and serves the common good that Rev. Chuck talks about.
posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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People in the state of Oregon who still support Reagonomics and his trickle down theory of economic growth favoring the rich over the poor in tax policy, are the same ones that watch FOX news and swallow the baloney they broadcast day in and day out. The Nobel economist Paul Krugman has writtten a book of economic history that clearly shows that the only way our economy is to recover is for the middle class and lower classes to increase their wealth at the expense of high income individuals and corporations. Measures 66 and 67 are a step in that direction. Vote Yes on both measures. If not for public services, then for the health of our economy.
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