The only thing you need to know about the first gubernatorial debate that aired last night was that Ted Kulongoski reaffirmed that he wants a sales tax.
"You're darned right I do!" I think was the exact quote.
Ok then.
Sounds as if the Governor has give Ron Saxton everything he needs to go over the top.
Thanks, Guv.
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I'd take a sales tax - but only if it was to offset a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT COMPLETE RELIEF of Oregon Personal Income Taxes, because I believe it would actually lower my overall tax burden.
Although the funny thing about Teddy and the other D's being proponents of the sales tax is that I once read a BRILLIANT paper (can't remember where,) that posited the sales tax as a directly burdensome tax on lower income peoples. Because those at lower incomes spend a higher percentage of their disposable incomes purchasing sales-taxable items. Therefore it really goes against all the Socialistic up-with-the-people policies of the D party, doesn't it? Or do I have it wrong?
I saw him give that answer. It was the most pathetic piece of doublespeak I ever saw out of a politician. He was twisting himself into a pretzel trying to explain that he hadn't really blown with the political winds.
It wasn't even very artful.
Methinks the burden of an increase in cigarette taxes would also be borne disproportionally by lower income and people of color - no? Statistically, those groups are more likely to be smokers. Throw in young, hip folks (think the Pearl here), another bastion of D's, and you've got an attack on groups they purport to "care" about and whose support they crave along with the eating of their young.
Lovely idea, don't you think?
Bob Packwood's Tax REform Act of 1982 also dergulated the insurance and health care industry. The idea was deregulation would reduce insurance cost and the medical profession could/would lower their price when more people could afford to buy health insurance.
Thanks Bob for looking out the little people
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