Where's the coverage? No coverage about the O'Keefe crime ring. No apologizes to ACORN...
And a REAL populist movement coming from the left and it gets "chirp chirp"
Oh that "liberal" media.......
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-oregon-tax27-2010jan27,0,3341290.storyVoters in Oregon OK tax hikes
Corporations and wealthy families are targeted to help ease the state's budget crisis.
Oregon voters since 1990 have limited property taxes, rejected sales taxes and vetoed across-the-board income taxes. But with 87% of the ballots counted, the measure to raise income taxes on households earning more than $250,000 a year, and individuals earning more than $125,000, was winning with 54.1%. A second measure to raise the state's corporate income tax was ahead with 53.6%.
Business leaders had fought the measures, arguing that they would drive away entrepreneurs and force struggling businesses to slash jobs.
The two measures would raise more than $700 million to help close a gap in the state budget that at one point reached $4 billion.
Kevin Looper, who ran the campaign to pass the measures, said the vote was a signal that predictions of a general conservative retrenchment following the Republican victory in this month's Senate race in Massachusetts were premature.
"I think this is firmly a progressive, populist moment. It just takes leaders to stand up and say what we're about, and make sure things are clear to voters," he said. "Because when the choice gets made clear like that, voters will almost always make the right decision."
Looper said the credit goes to Democratic leaders in the Legislature, who passed the tax increases against nearly unanimous Republican opposition.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-oregon-tax27-2010jan27,0,3341290.storyCONGRATS OREGON!!!!!!!!!
:bounce: :toast: :woohoo: :applause: :applause: :applause:
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
