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Home Front: Politix
'Gigantic' corporate tax hike likely headed to Oregon voters
2016-05-25
[FOXNEWS] A massive $2.8 billion annual corporate tax hike is likely headed to Oregon voters in November, a move that could create the most aggressive tax climate for big business of any state in the nation.
After all the businesses leave the state they'll be able to concentrate on Agrarian Reform®.
The ballot proposal comes as raising taxes on the wealthy and large corporations is at the forefront of a national debate — especially among Democratic progressives such as Bernie Sanders and much of Oregon's electorate— about how to close the gaping economic disparities between rich and poor in a post-Great Recession era.

The proposal's labor-union backers are just one step from getting the measure on the ballot after submitting 130,000 signatures to state elections officials last week. They say it would tap a tiny portion of Oregon businesses while bringing a huge boost to cash-strapped public education, health care and senior services.
Posted by:Fred

#14  #10 - extra double good snark!
Posted by: Frank G   2016-05-25 21:01  

#13  The mayor of Eugene, Oregon decided it would be good to be a sanctuary city for homeless. They come from all up and down the I5 corridor and set up in areas all over the place. She was reelected too, so the folks in this uber-liberal university town must agree. I doubt she can see any of this from her house, so it's probably OK.
Posted by: gorb   2016-05-25 15:28  

#12  #10 Venezuela with hacky sack

That's a winner!
Posted by: SteveS   2016-05-25 15:13  

#11  Phil Knight to the white courtesy telephone, Phil Knight.
Posted by: Speagum Henbane3168   2016-05-25 14:37  

#10  Venezuela with hacky sack
Snark of the Day
Posted by: regular joe   2016-05-25 11:03  

#9  The allegory of the golden goose is only two and a half millenniums old. Free stuff, free stuff, free stuff! Welcome to Caracas of the North comrades.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-05-25 08:53  

#8  Texas better get ready for another round of incoming businesses.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-05-25 07:54  

#7  Hospitals would be hit as well as anything that is moves.

As hospitals close, just think of the healthcare savings this will produce.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-05-25 06:18  

#6  "Seed corn? What's that?"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-05-25 05:15  

#5  Totally Ignorant Commie Statists

Corporations whether profitable or not would be required to pay a major tax. Wholesalers would pay a tax, the retailer would pay another tax, then the consumer would pay a third tax on that one item.

Hospitals would be hit as well as anything that is moves.

Many jobs would be lost "unexpectedly" as well as shopping sprees outside the state resulting in "unexpectedly" lower tax revenue than expected by the knuckle dragging liberals.
Posted by: Percy McCoy7690   2016-05-25 01:24  

#4   labor-union backers...

Any bets that they are state/local government employee unions that don't care if everyone ELSE loses their jobs as long as their pensions are guaranteed?
Posted by: magpie   2016-05-25 01:22  

#3  Now all they need is a huge tax on leaving the state...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-05-25 01:05  

#2  Enjoy your loss of jobs and high unemployment... assholes.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-05-25 00:10  

#1  They say it would tap a tiny portion of Oregon businesses while bringing a huge boost to cash-strapped

"Smash the kulaks as a class!"
Posted by: charger   2016-05-25 00:02  

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