Oregon Rejects Higher Taxes
Oregon’s politicians decided to give voters a choice: Raise taxes to balance the state budget or cut funding to “popular” programs like schools, state troopers and medical treatment for the elderly and disabled.
Anti-tax groups didn’t even bother to fight, thinking that voters would choose spending cuts. However, the people opposing cuts ran a determined grass roots campaign to highlight the consequences of the cuts. The Washington Post had a glowing article (of course) about their efforts yesterday, with a poll showing the voters torn with 48% for tax hikes, 48% for spending cuts and 4% undecided. Well, voters voted yesterday and voted 56-44 for spending cuts, not tax hikes.