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It's sad that people out there can always complain and second guess the government, but they never want to make the hard decisions at the time when they had to be made. They let someone else make them and throw a fit. That's a cynical cop out. It's easy to sit back and be a naysayer, but nothing ever gets accomplished this way. The best budget budget compromise that could pass is, by definition, the best budget, because budgets that don't pass are not budgets. Grownups understand that "compromise" is not a dirty word.

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Haven't the rich people benefited the most from society and do they not owe something back to society? Or do you believe that all rich people are just naturally smarter and harder working than everyone else? Did they really succeed with no help from anyone else in society and now they owe nothing back to us?

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First of all, most "middle class Oregonians" don't own 6 rental properties. You also mention that you could reorganize as a sole proprietorship and avoid this tax, so it sounds like it won't actually "hurt you immensely" like you claim at first. Measure 67 was not designed to hurt small businesses, so reorganizing them to avoid the tax is what the measure was designed to allow. However, the really big corporations will not be able to convert to sole proprietorships and avoid the tax, so this is where the real money will be raised from this measure. This is a good thing, because it's ridiculous for a company like Best Buy to only pay $10 a year to the state of Oregon because they claim they have make no money (after they pay their CEO millions). Corporations need to pay their fair share like the rest of us, so this reform is long overdue.

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It's easy to talk about cutting spending and cutting taxes, but shouldn't voters be asking the anti-tax folks to explain why they want to cut school days for our kids, and vital public safety services, like police and firefighters, just to give tax cuts to the rich?

Can anyone really believe that corporations will cut jobs just because their taxes go from $10 to $150 per year and are we willing to make 98% of Oregonians suffer just so the wealthiest 2% don't have to pay a few hundred extra dollars?

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