{"id":555,"date":"2010-01-28T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=555"},"modified":"2010-01-28T04:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:51:00","slug":"oregon-voters-raise-taxes-on-corporations-and-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/oregon-voters-raise-taxes-on-corporations-and-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Voters Raise Taxes on Corporations and the Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five days ago I encouraged<\/a> support for Oregon Measures 66 and 67.  I\u2019m happy to announce that both passed.<\/p>\n

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\"Yes_for_Oregon\"<\/a> 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.<\/font><\/p>\n

The tax measures passed easily, with late returns showing a 54 percent to 46 percent<\/strong> 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<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n

The results triggered waves of relief from educators and legislative leaders, who were facing an estimated $727 million shortfall in the current two-year budget if the measures failed.<\/font><\/p>\n

"We’re absolutely ecstatic," said Hanna Vandering, a physical education teacher from Beaverton and vice president of the statewide teachers union. "What Oregonians said today is they believe in public education and vital services."<\/font><\/p>\n

The double-barreled victory is the first voter-approved statewide income tax increase since the 1930s<\/strong>. Other states, facing similar budget woes, are watching the outcome closely because Oregon, after all, is a state that capped property taxes and locked a surplus tax rebate program into the constitution<\/font>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Common Dreams<\/a>><\/p>\n

The people of Oregon, although progressive in many ways, have a long standing antipathy to taxes.  Nevertheless, we recognized that it\u2019s time for the rich, including corporations, to pay more.  We saw through an onslaught of rabid-right advertising laden with lies.  We have set the example for America.  Follow our lead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five days ago I encouraged support for Oregon Measures 66 and 67.  I\u2019m happy to announce that both passed. 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 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}