Portland Votes for Higher Income Tax
Portland voted for a higher income tax on Tuesday, January 26th. I heard Portland talk show host Lars Larson say on the Dori Monson show that there are 3M adults in Oregon. Out of that, 10% are employed by the government with another 15% on a government pension. 20% are on food stamps or state assistance. Oregon has the 2nd highest tax rate in the WORLD with Denmark being 1st. Larson suspects that Oregon has reached the tipping point and may be the bellwether for the rest of the nation.
Government taxes cigarettes to discourage smoking, casinos to discourage gambling, liquor to discourage drinking and now small business to discourage employment. He concluded with ‘government kills its host’. How simple! How succinct!
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody.
And when half of the people get the idea they don’t have to work because the other half’s going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody’s going to get what I work for,
That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
-Dr. Adrian Rogers