a look back. measure 66-67 dawgz

(so i wrote this earlier this year and was completely amused by it)

OKAY HERE'S THE DEAL PORTLANDER'Z: Voting for Measure 66-67 is coming up in January. If you've been living under a rock, it's the measure to raise corporate tax from a flat rate of $10 a year to a sliding scale between $150 (for small businesses) to $100,000 (for bigger corporations). I know, YAY tax the corporations.

Now i'll tell you why it's even more important now during the recession:

this money is more than likely to go to programs like medicare and medicaid and also go into our education system. YEAH I SAID IT, PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES.

Since the passing of the stimulus package, the federal government has agreed to pay something like 60 cents out of every dollar we spend on medicare and medicaid! FAWK, FREE MONEY DOODZ!That means we're getting more for less!

Also, oregon is part of a stimulus package program that allows us to receive extra stimulus money for our education system AS LONG as we spend a certain amount of money on education programs.

But if these measures don't pass, we're more than likely going to have to cut funding to these programs and also from medicare and medicaid which means we won't get that extra money.That means our public school system is going to be shittier than it already is. Yeah I know, I didn't think that was possible either!

Long story short, GO VOTE in january because there's already been some opposing protestors and we may or may not have this in the bag and it all really depends on us to not be mindless idiots thinking that we have no say in how our government should spend OUR MONEY.

Just think of that Christmas where you got that shitty toy and you were all pissed but you didn't hint at your parents what you wanted. Well SHIT, you would've gotten what you wanted if you would've just let them have known. Same story here, different present!