Gov. Brown's Budget
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So, we are faced with a $1.7 Billon shortfall. 



SALEM — Stressing that she was loathe to make cuts, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown presented her budget proposal Thursday aimed at addressing a whopping $1.7 billion shortfall while maintaining funding for critical areas, including education and health care.

“I had to make some very difficult decisions,” the Democratic governor told a news conference in her Oregon State Capitol office.


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And excerpt from todays (12/2) Mail Tribune editorial: 

It’s time for the Legislature to get serious about fixing the state’s dysfunctional tax system, a topic that has generated much discussion over the years but precious little action. While they’re at it, lawmakers should get serious with public employee unions and negotiate more changes in the pension system to chip away at the unfunded liability plaguing the budgets of state agencies, school districts and local governments.
Majority Democrats have the power to push for real changes, if they can find the will. Minority Republicans already have denounced Brown’s budget and blamed the Democrats for what they call unsustainable spending, but they will have to spell out where they think cuts should be made, and be open to some revenue increases, too.
Brown says her budget “represents the beginning of a conversation, not the end.”
Let the conversation begin.
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My personal feeling is we did the right thing in not accepting Measure 97. 
Now it's time for our representives in Salem to get serious and do the "peoples work" in finding "best solutions" in funding necessary state services. 

Our job is to stay in contact with our local representives and let the know how we feel about the responsibility they have in finding solutions. That may (almost certainly) require adjustments in the PERS program. Difficult, but not impossible. 

Let the work begin. And we "the people" must express our concerns.
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A retirement home tax is what we need
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(12-02-2016, 08:19 AM)chuck white Wrote: A retirement home tax is what we need

Chucky, are you letting the 6 year old post again? 

This is SERIOUS stuff.
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