News Oct 8, 2009 at 4:00 am

Grassroots Group Knocks Doors for Popular New Taxes

Illustration by Zack Soto

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1
Wow, Tim Boyle is a prick. Another good reason to boycott Columbia products. Hey Reedies, maybe you guys should have some sort of outing/protest of Tim Boyle being FOR cutting education, human services, and public safety budgets...Public shaming of these greedy fucks is about the only way we have to keep them accountable.
2
These rich pricks are SO GOOD at fooling the DUMBASS americans around us, that actually VOTE AGAINST their own interests because they actually believe the anti tax crowd.

It's so sad to watch the public voting to destroy itself.

Propaganda, it works!
3
I'll give y'all an example of just how STUPID some people are.
I work at TRIMET and I know LOTS OF PEOPLE who work there that are ANTI GOVERNMENT!

That's fight folks, people who work for the government are SO FREAKING STUPID that they are anti government in their politics, and of course ANTI UNION.

In other words, the believe in a philosophy that WOULD PUT THEM OUT OF WORK.
4
Why should we be encouraging gas stations and timber companies?

I know that there are alot of Oregonians that are employed in the forest product industry in this state. But those folks aren't getting any tax break and there are just as many Oregonians who have lost their jobs in this industry, jobs that won't be coming back, no matter how much of our tax money we allow GP, Weyerhauser, IP, ITT, Menashe Corporation etc. to funnel back to their shareholders.

These people already pay less than their fair share in taxes on their income from those shares.
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Corporations paying $10 a year? Screw that! I don't want to see businesses taxed to the point where they go under or leave the state, but they should at least pay a fair portion of the tax revenue... after all, they benefit from the services just like everyone else.

Corporations need to invest in the states infrastructure so we can educate our kids, pave roads, etc so we don't restrict the future flow of people and goods into companies years later.
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Folks, you can tax the rich all you want, but they'll just pass the cost of compliance on to the next guy and the next guy will pass it on to the next guy until finally we consumers end up paying it. That's how taxation works in this country. Why pay your own taxes when you can add it on to the cost of your products and services?

Take my advice. Switch to a consumption tax. It's the only way to force the rich to pay their own taxes out of their own pocket. Nothing else will work. The rich will never pay up until we start playing a whole new ballgame.

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