Battle of the ballots.Byline: Jeff Wright Jeff Wright can refer to:
Measure 30 has split many Oregonians into two camps. The Feb. 3 ballot measure increases personal income and corporate taxes to stave off stave n. 1. A narrow strip of wood forming part of the sides of a barrel, tub, or similar structure. 2. A rung of a ladder or chair. 3. A staff or cudgel. 4. Music See staff1. $800 million in state budget cuts. In one corner are residents angry that the state would raise taxes during a recession. They speak of a wasteful and arrogant ar·ro·gant adj. 1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance. 2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others: state government. In the other corner: citizens dismayed by the deep cuts in education and social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales that the measure's defeat would require. They also worry that Oregonians no longer care about the common good. The measure's fate is uncertain, though history doesn't like its chances: Voters approved the state income tax in 1930 - after four earlier rejections - and rejected virtually all tax proposals since, though they twice approved increases in the |
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