"Unfairly targets C corporations"? We are talking about only 1,000 out of 400,000 businesses in Oregon (.25%). These are the corporations that can and should be targeted, in the state that has the lowest corporate taxes in the nation, and small and medium-sized businesses end up paying proportionally *much* larger taxes than those 1k corporations do.

As for regressive price increases or the argument that costs will be passed on to the consumer, that's a stale myth. Prices are set by the market; these companies still have to compete in the same market as everyone else, B corporations, LLC's, small and mid-sized businesses, businesses across state lines, etc.

You should take a position, Portland Mercury. We're talking an automatic cuts across the board if this doesn't pass, and you'll find yourself writing lots more articles similar to today's on short-staffed cops, about PPS woes, out-of-luck retirees and homelessness, health care crises.

Returned to see if anybody else commented, and making grammar cuts across the last hastily typedd[sic] paragraph. "...talking automatic cuts... a lot more"