Richardson and Republicans Slash Programs, Middle Class Priorities
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When the Ways and Means Committee released their proposed Oregon budget last week, advocates for schools, senior services, and public safety immediately raised the alarm.
The budget would mean painful cuts that would harm middle-class families, while holding on to hundreds of millions in unspent money. Rep. Dennis Richardson and legislative Republicans, on the other hand, embraced the budget cuts, even saying they didn't go far enough.
This week, advocates launched a TV ad alerting Oregonians to the harmful impacts of Richardson's budget, and the terrible idea to hold on to more than $440 million while middle-class families suffer. Watch the ad below.
Why are Representative Richardson and the Oregon Republicans holding money back, when schools are closing and middle class priorities like home health care for seniors are being slashed? Here's what we know about their priorities: Republicans just voted to give away nearly $100 million in tax breaks to corporations.
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I'm on Richardsons email list and I regularly challenge him as to why he gives away the State for BIG BUSINESS by tax cuts and credits and how us small business people get no help whatsoever. If the middle class is supported and helped and if our infrastructure was expanded at 1/2 the rate of China there would be NO FREAKING DEFICIT! However that confronts the Right Wing Mythology with probable success for most Oregonians and that just won't be accepted by the minority of Depraved Sociopathic Republicans who prefer to maintain an unworkable unsuccessful ideaology and magical thinking in policies that visit misery at least, and sometimes actual death at worst, for Oregonians that are just holding on at the fringes of our Economy through no fault of their own.