{"id":179,"date":"2010-01-15T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T06:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=179"},"modified":"2010-01-15T23:42:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T06:42:33","slug":"179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Measure 66 and 67 Just The Facts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got pro Measure 66 and 67 in the mail today; too bad, they are choosey what facts are shown.<\/p>\n<p>How about the facts proponents are living out are leaving out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Fact:<\/h2>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Fact:<\/h2>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>FACT:<\/h2>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>FACT:<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The rich can move to Washington State, no income tax equals no tax money to pay for 3.4 billion in new spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">LIE:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/defendoregon.typepad.com\/files\/faq-vote-yes.pdf\">http:\/\/defendoregon.typepad.com\/files\/faq-vote-yes.pdf<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Fact:<\/h2>\n<p>Measure 67 is a tax on gross receipts (income before expenses and cost of sales) not a tax on profit (after expenses are deducted).<\/p>\n<p>It replaces the current $10 corporate minimum tax for C-corporations with a permanent new tax on a company\u2019s Oregon sales, as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-180\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?attachment_id=180\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"table\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/Image1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Fact The ultimate insult on the middle class<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-180\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?attachment_id=180\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Vote No ON 66 and 67<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 Fact: Among its other features, Measure 67 will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,5],"tags":[86,84,87,85],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-precinct","category-republican-campaigning","tag-jan-26-election","tag-measure-66-67","tag-oregon","tag-vote-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}