Page 8, Portland Observer, August 21, 1985
e Happy Endings
You’ll Love Ballot Measure # 1
ot so long ago. most Oregonians hail good jobs,
heaJthx businesses, affordable homes, and
" J M G O IN G TO BE
I nder the Balanced lax System.
property taxes were cut by an
average o f J5%. Homeowners were happy.
AB l E
great schools for their children
They patd for it mostly by taxing (and taxing
and taxing ) their homes and paychecks, in a
m e t i s j u s t one
moke worker
's .
that m e a n s
„ e i
lO fiO o
dangerous, unbalanced way
So. even though Oregon was only
" I t EVERY
OREOON BUSINESS
M O R F 0
"JF W Í V A n T tO TO U
TAX t o L I K I N t W
T O A X l A i . w l D » ! U V /N O M M K CORK
J O B S !'
the Stith largest stale in Amenia,
TO
K t CP M T
H O M C .fV C N
IP M Y IN C O R f
Goes D O W N 1"
Meanwhile. local Oregon businesses were hiring
And hiring
And those companies outside
Oregon, with all those
jobs for Oregonians? They put
" 1 CAN SURE
Oregon back on their list
inco m e
USE P N
people s property taxes were the
TAX
c u r,
T O O '"*
Kth highest. Their income taxes
were 3rd highest! Ranking them
llie Ridanced lax System also cut Income Taxes by an
right up there with Sew York
average of 10“., tiw>...
But when tliex thought about lowering their high property taxes. Oregonians ran
into a very lough problem
"WE TOURISTS will
B ut tix T books for
EVERT XHCOLCKILD
IN OREGON A N O PIT
"W H O CAN
HAKE A
You see, their property taxes were being used Io fund
D E C IS IO N
As lor the kids
"wc just
WANT TO
«Í»0 T°
., ( K
X SCHO OL.
'1
nobody thought to ask
a year to Oregon s economy
And .ill it ti h >k to balance Oregoiis tax
EVERT
classroom
JUST FOR
protecting their homes and a chillis education
well,
Sxstem tliex were contributing at least $ 26 million dollars
A COMPUTER IN
education That meant they had to choose between
L IK I that ’
MT KO M I
A CKILDS
t Ü D C A TO H 1"
And the tourists? Uell, under Measure I s Balanced lax
STARTERS
— s
sxstem was a yes vote for Measure
# I. And l i n t o f the money netted by
the retail sales u \ went directly to
education. Bx law
A
»V
W
them how this leit
w e d o n ’ t h a v e
to choose betw een
our homesbusinesses
" /v o w
for exerybodx in
Oregon, that meant
AND
one tiling
D O N T G E T TA x EO O N
ON BOV, I
g r o c e r ie s
large companies alike
|usl like homeowners, small business owners were forced to pax the same high
B ills ,
pro|x rt\ taxes whether tins made money or not And sometimes, they had to lax oil
M IR E ! "
a
mu
A ld i I N O A lftx T 1
“
lower incomes Most necessities
are exempt from the retail sales
tax.
refund. And tl xou re a renier, you gel one ti n »
___
And some companies thinking ot mining to
Oregonians, crossed
Plus, most important ot a ll... the entire Balanced lax
Plan was TAMPER PHtiOE It was actually written into
Oregon's constitution so the politicians couldn't play
Oregon oil their list
with it.
Oregon, and bringing
thousands of |obs for
" THE POLITICIANS
CAN T CHANGE IT
WITHOUT
MT
\V 0 T E '"
I Ins could alwaxs lower the retail sales tax. but this
states had a mon' balanced tax plan than Oregon
i tr
AND M O R E
Bist of .ill Oregon s Balanced lax
Sxstem is lair to Oregonians with
And it xour household earns less than SI still, you qualify lor a sales tax
workers to pax those taxi’s
Because t3 out of 3(1
AS 70U»/STS,Wf
p r e s c r ip t io n
m iD ic iN e s
G a s o l in e
T t w HOMES AUTOMOBILE
'R A o e i n s
h o u s e no lo
U T IL IT IE S FUtlWOOO RENT
A N D MORTGAGE PAYMENTS
NTDICA l D ENTA L ,N O S R i TAL
I nbalanced Uxes were costing Oregonians jobs In hurting small businesses and
I CAN
O U R C H IL D R E N 'S
E D U C A T IO N *
Jobs wen- another problem.
'• t n c h ig h e r m v
propcrtt ta xes ,
THE F t W f R P(OR l E
"ITC U T S PROPERTY
TAXES UP TO 1 5 %
AND INCOME TAXES
UP TO 1 0 % TO
BALANCE A 5 %
RETAIL.
SALES
TAX*
couliln I raise it above 3"„ without a vote of all tile ¡veople
The tourists were another problem.
The tounsts used Oregon’s roads— our highwaxs
our parks
— our police protection— our tire departments All those
lini everyone lixe happily ever after7
expensive things wen' being paid lor b\ Oregon 's taxpaxers
\ohodv can guarantee that
And the tounsts nexer had to pax their lair share
But tl you're an Oregonian who has just about had it with unbalanced taxes, you
Iranklx no one was suqtrised when the
•W«ATX 5 0 G R E A T ABOUT MICH PROPERTV
TA XES ,M l f A IN C O M E TAXES,UKEMAOTNINT,
A FREE R i D f COA TOURISTS A N D A
W E A K SCHOOL. S V f T I M T -
can make a Balanced Tax Svslem lor Oregon a reality on September P , I9B3.
,ieople of Oregon began to get a little
By voting “Yes” for Ballot Measure 1,
and the Balanced Tax Plan.
ulgx about all this As they saw it tliex
had a right to the good things a balanced
tax sxstem would bring
It probablv won t make your hie a lain tale But at least the nightmare will be over
But there were some folks who were so fnghtenid of any tix measure that tliex
toughl against Balanced Taxes without ever actuallx understanding Measure # I
But thinking Oregonians were saying.
This couliln I think of one reason win
this shouldn't balance their taxes and
solxe those problems
" A BALANCED TAX
ST STEM WOULD M l AM
HOAE JOBS, GOOD
SCHOOL S , 5 f cuRE n o nes
and healthy t w N f n t s
A N O TOURISTS PATINO
their p * ‘R s h a r e "
r
1
Help us get the message
to even more Oregonians.
send:
D $20
[ $10
□ $$
Ci Even $1 for Measure #1
to rt-uple h»r a Better Oregon • PO Box 23690 • Kirtland. Oregon 97223
Name
" T m E BALA N C EO TAX S V S T ÍM
S O L V IO OUR P R O B C tM ! "
And so this did And after months of
Address
work. Measure I for a Balanced lax
System was bom.
And it worked like this
Ofhce
Phone: Home
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