Folks who know me know my bumper-sticker distillation of tax policy:

All Taxes Tax the Poor: It's Not Who Writes the Check, It's Who Pays the Price!

And now we have another perfect example, in the passage of 66 & 67.

With 66, Oregon voters increased the income tax rate on high earners in the state by 20%. Gee, I wonder what they will do, don't you? Let's see, they might:

Let me be up front.  I am not directly impacted by the passage of Measures 66 and 67.  These measures will not cost me a dime in any direct tax increases.   Does that give me a clear conscious to vote yes to pass them?

So what is it that made Oregon voters pass these massive tax increases on businesses and the so called “wealthy”?  Is it jealousy and class warfare?   Is it that there are now more people living off of government benefits than not?  Do they believe that the government really needs more money?  Do they now buy the lies that corporations and success are somehow evil?   I suspect the answer is a little bit of all of these reasons but let me tell you what I see.   

Thank you to all the Clackamas County PCP’s! Tuesday’s results were grim, but Kurt Schrader and other representatives of this County need to take notice. Clackamas County stands out strongly for fiscal responsibility.

Yahoo is running a poll, and I'll just bet you have an opinion to register.

Q. The president's progress with the battered economy has been both praised and criticized. How well are his efforts measuring up with you?

vote here. Oh, and it's designed for dead Democrats: you can vote more than once.

Now, after Brown's victory in Massachusetts, a state with deeper Democrat pockets than in Oregon, will someone please call on some of our well established and respected present and past Republican Legislators and say, "Yes You Can!" Let's start naming a few: Larry George would be my first choice. Wyden has absolutely betrayed his constituents. He rode into office on the backs of seniors and with his health care bill vote out of committee and then on the floor he has stabbed them in the backs. Not only should every Republican and non-afiliated fiscal conservative be ready to hold him accountable,so should every senior, D, R, and I.