voting on tax increases

[skysidhe]

aww I could just hug you both! lol

thanks! gtg

[Happy Monkey]

Any money you get from the corporations now is money they won't have to corrupt the elections!

[classicman]

lol - good point HM.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Redux

Oregon is known as a pretty progressive and "good government" state by most measures.

When the pioneers settled Oregon, the first thing they did was built a school and a courthouse. In Washington they built a bar and a union hall.

[skysidhe]

Home of Wolf Town and Wolf Haven.We have a Butterfly Garden.

j/k Washington has butterfly gardens too. and P.A. does too!

and a wolf sanctuary as well.

Kids can actually get up close and personal with the butterfly's.

http://www.thebutterflyfarm.com/inde...d=15&Itemid=29

Both measures passed by wide margins:

Oregon voters bucked decades of anti-tax and anti-Salem sentiment Tuesday, raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy to prevent further erosion of public schools and other state services.

The tax measures passed easily, with late returns showing a 54 percent to 46 percent ratio. Measure 66 raises taxes on households with taxable income above $250,000, and Measure 67 sets higher minimum taxes on corporations and increases the tax rate on upper-level profits

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/i...res_by_bi.html

What makes the "populist" movement (including the tea baggers) sweeping the country these days so interesting is that it is not all anti-tax and anti-government.

[skysidhe]

I can just hear the collective sigh.

I had no doubt it would pass though. There are many median income families that are feeling the pinch and according to the census data 94% of workers are private wage and salary.
I thought that was interesting.


(side note)
The day I cast my ballot there was an older gentleman walking with double canes slowly up the ramp.I followed him in but on the way out one of his canes slipped on the ramp. He keeled toward the hand rail but my instinct was to try and catch him. He was tall as a tree and would have crushed me if he had fallen my way.
I must have looked pretty silly trying to catch a gentleman that was probably a good 7 feet tall but then I thought what would anyone do just stand there and let him go down? sheesh

[classicman]

@ redux - "tea baggers" & "populist" in the same sentence - interesting.

@ Sky - yeh taxing the elusive "somebody else" or "the big bad corp" not a difficult one usually.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Any money you get from the corporations now is money they won't have to corrupt the elections!

Want to bet on that?