The Governor of Oregon has come up with his new budget. He is proposing increases in almost every fee. I can’t understand how he or any elected official could raise fees on tax payers at a time like this. He wants to raise car registration by 200% and a bunch of other fees by 100%. They have lost all touch with the people who elected them. Taxpayers are losing their home, losing their jobs, their retirement accounts have lost 50%. We are struggling just like the government and their answer is to take more from us.
He is also proposing hiring 1400 new state employees. Now while businesses are cutting jobs to save money as their revenues drop and the government is doing just the opposite, they are adding jobs even though they don’t have money. If other business did the same thing they would go bankrupt and the economy would be even worse. The taxpayers of this state (all states) are over taxed and the government keeps going on as if we have all the money in the world.
They are giving the big three auto companies a herd time because they didn’t change their business model as the country changed and are now on the verge of bankruptcy and they did the same to the banking sector as they gave loans to people who couldn’t afford it and they also went bankrupt but yet they are doing the same thing. I think that they should realize they are doing the same thing. They are not even trying to control spending or live within their means.
It is time we take back our government and elect people who will really work to represent us the voters of this great country. We are all cutting back and that is hurting the economy and instead of letting us keep some of our money that we work hard for they want to take more leaving us less which will only make things worse as we will have to cut back even more to pay the huge tax burden they are putting on us. We all need to call or e-mail the governor and all our elected officials and tell them enough is enough. If they do not control spending, if they do not give us tax relief we will vote them out and they can try and live on a normal job and try and pay the same taxes we have to on a budget.
