 wearing their prison garb?
To illustrate, let’s roll through the new taxes, fees and burdens placed on businesses and people. The Democrat super-majority initiated state-wide rent control, which dampens the supply of affordable housing and chases away real estate investors. This is quite ironic because their goal is to increase affordable housing within Oregon.
Then, they banned plastic straws, followed by a state-wide ban on single-use plastic bags like those used at the grocery store. Remember, there was a time when paper bags were outlawed. Back then, the chant was, “Save the Planet, ban paper bags.” Today, we hear the same chant, “Save the Planet, ban plastic bags.” Which will it be, paper or plastic? Why is it so distasteful, to the super-majority, to allow the consumer to choose?
Additionally, the progressives passed a gigantic tax and spend initiative, which instituted a Gross Sales Tax without a single Republican vote. House Bill 3427 was disguised as an education funding bill, but without a constitutional amendment, the funds can be spent anywhere. Officially called a Corporate Activities Tax, the effect of this Gross Sales gimmick will be felt across all business and trickle down to the paying customer.
Not content with just tearing up real estate opportunities and “funding” education, the progressive Democrats pretend they can curb rising health care costs by raising $380 million in taxes from hospitals and health insurers. The idea that inflicting $380 million in additional taxes will lower the cost of healthcare is patently absurd.
The cache of taxes raised by the Democrat super-majority in this legislative session will extract $750 per man, woman and child, or $3000 for a family of four, per year.
When will it end? Now!
First, it is time the Democrat super-majority returned freedom back to the people of Oregon. Second, the authoritarians ought to take a page from the Original Star Wars trilogy and realize that the more they tighten their grip, the more people will slip through their fingers.
As F. A. Hayek argued, socialism has always failed due to internal errors in its assessment of factual evidence, logical assumptions and historical understanding. We have observed its gross failures many times during this past century. These failures have occurred across many nations, cultures and ethnicities and all point to the errors in the starting assumptions. Hayek notes this is the “fatal conceit” of the political class – the idea that rule-makers are able to shape the world around themselves, according to their legislative wishes and desires.
The legislative mandates inside of HB 2020, the gas and emissions tax, are nothing but a blunt force, trauma inducing tool to force tax-payers into compliance while extracting their hard-won earnings into the pockets of the well-connected. This legislation is not about “climate change.” It is about money. Oregon has one of the lowest carbon emissions rates in America. This is just another way to grab billions of dollars out of the pockets of Oregonians.
Unlike those in Dickinson’s account, I will never cave.
Thank you, for supporting the “Oregon 11,” as we stand for Liberty, freedom, sound policy, and fiscal responsibility!
Remember, if we don't stand for rural-Oregon values and common sense - No one will!
Coming smack in the middle of Hollywood awards season, the Ovations can get lost in the mix of glitzy, celebrity-packed parties taking place around town this week. On Monday at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, L.A.'s theater community put on black tie and threw its own party to honor the best stage productions of the past season.
The 2009-10 Ovation Awards were dominated by the Geffen Playhouse and the Fountain Theatre, with five wins each. Center Theatre Group and the Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura tied with three each. "Equivocation," Bill Cain's historic drama that was produced at the Geffen, won for best play at a large theater, while "Oedipus the King, Mama!," produced by the Troubadour Theater Company, received best musical at a large theater.
The Fountain Theatre in Hollywood took home the prize for best overall season, and its production of "The Ballad of Emmett Till," by Ifa Bayeza, took home the prize for best play at an intimate theater, tying with Rogue Machine's production of "Four Places" by Joel Drake Johnson. The Celebration Theatre's staging of "The Women of Brewster Place" won for best musical at an intimate theater.
Playwright L. Trey Wilson won the original-play award for "Something Happened" at the recently launched Pacific Stages. The Rubicon's musical "Daddy Long Legs" won the awards for John Caird's book and Paul Gordon's lyrics and music.
This year's acting awards saw a number of ties across multiple categories. The award for lead actor in a play went to Bruce French for "The Browning Version" at Pacific Resident Theatre, Alan Mandell for "No Man's Land" at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and Daniel Beaty for "Through the Night" at the Geffen. The award for lead actor in a musical went to Josh Grisetti for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" at Reprise Theatre Company, Brendan Hunt for "Savin' Up for Saturday Night" at Sacred Fools and Robert J. Townsend for "The Story of My Life"by the Havok Theatre Company.
The award for lead actress in a musical went to Megan McGinnis for "Daddy Long Legs" at the Rubicon. The prize for lead actress in a drama went to Beth Grant for "Grace & Glorie" at the Colony Theatre Company and Anna Khaja for "Shaheed -- The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto" at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre.
Other notable acting winners include supporting turns by Harry Groener in "Equivocation"; Deirdre O'Connell in "The Wake" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; David St. Louis in "Parade" at the Mark Taper Forum; and Sally Struthers in "Cinderella" at the Cabrillo Music Theatre.
The Ovation Awards, organized by the LA Stage Alliance, are decided on by a pool of about 250 locally based voters.
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