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2010-01-27 Home Front: Politix

Oregon votes on higher taxes for rich, businesses

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Morton, 34, a homemaker, and McManaway, 31, an unemployed architect, voted "yes" on the measures

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-01-27 05:41|| 2010-01-27 05:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Courtenay Morton and Neil McManaway, two Portlanders

A random survey of Oregonians was it?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-27 05:44|| 2010-01-27 05:44|| Front Page Top

#3 the pro tax increase side won

Posted by lord garth 2010-01-27 07:20|| 2010-01-27 07:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Just more opportunity for another state to attract business, employment, and the big spenders.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-01-27 08:17|| 2010-01-27 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Mr. McManaway might want to put his former career behind him to take up fishing and gathering berries. It might be quite a spell before his architecural skills are needed again in Portland. As for Morton, well hopefully she's not married to an unemployed architect.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-27 08:30|| 2010-01-27 08:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Can't move south (Cal) or north (WA) so that means going east, Idaho and Montana or Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. Leave Oregon a hapless blue state and add more red to the other states.

Posted by Jack is Back! 2010-01-27 09:08|| 2010-01-27 09:08|| Front Page Top

#7 RBers may or may not be aware of the State of Oregon's pet entitlement called PERS. There are currently a number of journalistic investigations ongoing into the funding shenanigans of the 'good ol boys network' in Salem. Fred Starkey is one of those, having written a number of previous articles on PERS, such as this:

PERS is a Ponzi scheme in every sense of the word. Elizabeth Hovde with the Oregonian is another journalist on the case, as noted here

The State of Oregon reacts to PERS deficits by further draining resources from business and workers. The latest is these two very public measures.

You can't understand this State's woes without understanding PERS and how it impacts EVERYTHING in this State. Of course, it has everything to do with the lopsided control of the state by liberals in the major metropolitan areas of Portland, Salem and Eugene (as noted by the voting results of practically every election for the past 15 years of longer, including this one).

By the way, we're reacting this week to the economic crisis by raising prices. We've begun an advertising & PR campaign to both 'educate' our customers about the benefits of 'higher prices to businesses' and how much better our services will be, as well as to stimulate our sales by luring new business because 'we don't cut our services' to be profitable, we just raise our prices.(sarc)

Posted by logi_cal 2010-01-27 09:41|| 2010-01-27 09:41|| Front Page Top

#8 do they still brew Olympia in Tumwater?

Posted by bman 2010-01-27 11:39|| 2010-01-27 11:39|| Front Page Top

#9 they no longer brew Oly in Tumwater, sad to say.....
Geo. Heilman bought them out many years back and shuttered the operations in olympia. He also bought the old Rainier Brewery in South Seattle, it is now an artist loft and a Tully's coffee roasting headquarters.

Posted by 746 2010-01-27 13:10|| 2010-01-27 13:10|| Front Page Top

#10 as far as Salem is concerned, the rest of the Oregon territory is nothing but a waste filled with savages. Been that way since John McGlouglin's time on the Colombia (good man, him)

Posted by 746 2010-01-27 13:12|| 2010-01-27 13:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, there goes my sweetie's hopes of moving out there in the near future.

At least their public pension funds are secure, right? (They were well known for having some of the best, if not THE best, bennies around, even by public pension standards.)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-01-27 14:30|| 2010-01-27 14:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Taxing the people who create jobs is going to help unemployment (not).

Posted by JohnQC 2010-01-27 15:00|| 2010-01-27 15:00|| Front Page Top

#13 I neglected to mention that we ARE raising prices this week...

To pay for our higher taxes.

Congrats to the 'yes' morons.

Posted by logi_cal 2010-01-27 15:49|| 2010-01-27 15:49|| Front Page Top

#14 When I lived in Idaho, they made a point of telling me Idaho & neighbors North and South were the actual West Coast - CA, OR, and WA were the Left coast, not West.

Posted by Beau 2010-01-27 16:53|| 2010-01-27 16:53|| Front Page Top

#15 Thats a real shame about Olympia and Ranier Beer. Both were good light pilsners. We lost Lone Star and Pearl here and it hurt deeply.

Posted by bman 2010-01-27 17:33|| 2010-01-27 17:33|| Front Page Top

#16 No more Rainer Beer? Sob. How about Henry Weinhard?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-01-27 19:17|| 2010-01-27 19:17|| Front Page Top

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