I think you meant "Alarmist-named anti-tax group..."

Who is the real alarmist screeching about 'the children' here?

"it would be the equivalent of 2,000 old people losing care and 20,000 children losing health care coverage"

See how "The EQUIVALENT OF" is slipped in there?

So which does their actual argument rely on, ignorance or outright lying and fearmongering?

When is Steve Novick running for public office again? I really love voting for a boy-genius pirate-hobbit.

When is 'D' going to learn to say anything besides, "Taxes are bad, all the time, every time."?

@Graham

He won't.

@blackedout, Do you mean 'D' or Steve Novick.

I nope you don't mean Novick, cuz I really do love my boy-genius pirate-hobbit.

Show me where I said that.
Then try to wrap your minds around the fact that some taxes are just dandy.
It's government taking control over a great many things, however, only leads to mismanagement, waste, inefficiency, unaccountability and more control over YOUR life.

@Graham

I mean D. I like your boy-genius pirate-hobbit too.

Please tell me why the 1.7% of Oregonians who have large incomes have to pay for the 20,000 children spawned by people who fucked without a care in the world about who was going to pay for their progeny?

Actually it's "the equivalent" of those examples plus a bunch of other things. Those two examples just scratched the surface. - Steve Novick, middle-aged hobbit pirate

The gas stations could more than make up for their "loss" if they would just negotiate with the state and allow me to pump my own effing gas rather than waiting for the attendant to stop hitting on the 17 year old the next island over.

And D, you are a right-wing tool. I'm a business owner and more than happy to pay a higher tax, because the amount they are talking about is NO BIG DEAL.

Name a tax, or better yet, two, that is just "dandy." I'd love to hear which one(s) you support.

“The tax is particularly disadvantageous to gas stations and other extremely low-volume, high-margin operations. At a time when Oregon is in the middle of a recession, it does not make any sense to be raising taxes,”

I think he means low-margin, high-volume operations. It will force gas stations to raise their prices by about 0.25 cents/gallon at current prices, or around 3 cents a fillup, hardly a dealbreaker. (But this tax is not a disadvantage to high-margin operations at all.)

Matthew D,
I'll chalk that one up to me fucking up the transcription. Changed!