Vote – NO on Ballot Measures 115, 116, 117, 118, 119.
Vote – NO on #115 – The Impeachment Measure – Impeachment has devolved into a political weapon instead of a tool for keeping office-holders accountable. The majority party always adores the absolute power that “Our Democracy” lavishes on the smallest of their number. The party already in power will only wield the power of impeachment to advance their standing in the public mind and further their own creaturely ambitions.
As can be seen with recent impeachment hearings (Myorkas, Trump, Biden) these events were never about providing justice, accountability, or honesty. This measure would simply give more power to the powerful– an experience the good people in Oregon will get to see first-hand if Republicans lose any legislative seats during the November election.
Vote – NO on #116 – The Legislator Payroll Equity Measure – This measure is nothing but a shield for the legislature. It provides the big-spending elites with political cover.
Don’t help them mask their greed or ambition by giving them a free pass. Make them step up to the plate and act responsibly. Don’t give your legislator a way out of the mess they have created. Make them bear the responsibility for their failures and make them take the hard vote if they choose to oppose the best interest of the public.
Vote – NO on #117 – The Ranked Choices Measure – Our modern political class doesn’t like to make bold statements and there is no way to measure or rank the unquantifiable.
Rank-Choice voting scenarios are meaningless mathematical algorithms that can’t make choices between appropriate and inappropriate, right and wrong, or the lesser of two evils. So, let’s not justify the absurd by leaping off the cliff.
Vote – NO on #118 – The 3% Gross Sales Tax – This measure essentially steals $7,000,000,000 from the public without even attempting anything big, beautiful or wonderful. The gimmick here is it looks like a 3% tax on sales for big corporations. These costs will be cumulative across all players in all sectors. Large raw material producers will get taxed and pass that along. Everyone in like-industries will also raise their prices by 3%, knowing the legislature can move down the earnings tree after a simple majority vote. All added labor, innovation, and value will also get taxed. Inflation will continue to sky-rocket. The transportation industries, packaging, distribution and retail shelf-space will all get taxed too.
If you think Oregon’s economy is becoming less attractive, this measure will surely put our economy in the ugly bucket and you will pay the price.
Vote – NO on #119 – The Union Labor – Owner Silencing Measure -This Measure is an attempt to create a legal approach to what would otherwise be known as “labor racketeering.” Racketeering is typically an organized criminal effort in which the perpetrators set up coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordination of schemes (or “rackets”) to consistently collect unwarranted profits.
If the voters make silencing business owners “legal” then there will never be any opposition. However, it is necessarily immoral because it violates the free-speech, free-association and free-assembly rights of businesses in Oregon.