[pwd72s]

Place the blame where you will. Taxes grow at a rate that cannot be explained away by population gains or inflation. For this, I blame both parties. Geeze guys, wake up...it's a great pool hall hustle. Dems demand a 20% budget increase, then the Republicans fight, claw, scratch and CUT...all the way down to an 18% budget increase while the Dems cry about budget cuts. In Oregon at least, it doesn't matter which party has the majority, the game stays the same during every legislative session.

When cuts are being discussed, they always seem to be about police, fire, or schools...never hear about perhaps the planning department being overloaded with staff. Or the "arts commission", or...

The public buys into this con while the politicians rip $ away from all of us...

When a corporation is faced with higher taxes it makes it up by passing the cost increase along to the consumers. Even Ford can't survive forever when it suffers losses in the $ billions every year.

But yeah...let's blame greedy corporations...never blame Government, it's there to help us, right? Right?