If measure 66 and 67 fails, we will have to cut school days, and some services.
If measures 66 and 67 passes, I:
Now tell me teacher who will lose more, My ability to provide for my essential needs as food and shelter or union swags with a few less days teaching and a bigger class size.
I just got pro Measure 66 and 67 in the mail today; too bad, they are choosey what facts are shown.
How about the facts proponents are living out are leaving out.
Among its other features, Measure 67 will increase the fee to incorporate most businesses from $50 to $100. But there is an exception. If the business is already incorporated in another state, then its owners must pay, not $100, but $275 for the privilege of transacting business in Oregon.
In a bad economy with unemployment at 11.1%+ the legislators added $3,400,000,000.00 in new spending. Instead of just tightening their belts or leaving spending flat, they chose to raise job-killing taxes.
Among its other features, Measure 67 will increase the fee to incorporate most businesses from $50 to $100. But there is an exception. If the business is already incorporated in another state, then its owners must pay, not $100, but $275 for the privilege of transacting business in Oregon.
The rich can move to Washington State, no income tax equals no tax money to pay for 3.4 billion in new spending.
For C corporations, the corporate minimum income tax will be about one-tenth of one percent of total sales inside Oregon. Small businesses with sales less than $500,000 will also pay just $150. It is important to note that C corporations will pay either the new minimum or the profits tax, never both.
For C corporations, the 1.3% increase in the profits tax applies only to profits above $250,000. In 2013 the tax decreases; only a 1% increase will remain, and will only be applied to profits above $10 million.
http://defendoregon.typepad.com/files/faq-vote-yes.pdf
Measure 67 is a tax on gross receipts (income before expenses and cost of sales) not a tax on profit (after expenses are deducted).
It replaces the current $10 corporate minimum tax for C-corporations with a permanent new tax on a company’s Oregon sales, as follows:
Fact The ultimate insult on the middle class:
Middle class laid off workers will not pay tax on the fist $2400 of unemployment compensation. Gee that swell Salem, give us a tax break on unemployment after your tax hike kills jobs.
In my last post, I described that incident where the congregation disrespectfully laughed at the reading of the Epistle during the Opening Eucharist of the Diocesan Convention. I told my mother, a long time warden, and volunteer in her dioceses, about the laughter. She was very puzzled and explains it not uncommon for 1st Timothy 3: 1-7 to be read during a service before selection a bishop. In addition, this makes Bishop the Rt. Rev. Jerry Lamb’s remark even more troubling. As a Bishop he should not been taken back by the selection of 1 Timothy.
The recent election of an avowed as Bishop Suffragan for Diocese of Los Angeles reminds me how far my church; The Episcopal Church has drifted away form biblical authority. The recent election of homosexual Bishop and blessing of same sex marriage is just a symptom of a great problem, the Episcopal Church 40 year, or so history of denying and disrespecting the Bible as our authority of the faith in our churches.
This disregard and disrespect hits closer to home during Oregon Diocesan Convention. The priest, who was organizing the opening Eucharist of the Diocesan Convention , contacted our church waning to know if one of our delegates would read the Epistle. They held Opening Eucharist of the Diocesan Convention on Thursday, November 19, at 7:00 pm – the eve of the election of the Tenth Bishop of Oregon. The Epistle given as follows:
