The Oregonian reports that Oregon voters yesterday bucked decades of anti-tax sentiment "raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy to prevent further erosion of public schools and other state services."
"The double-barreled victory is the first voter-approved statewide income tax increase since the 1930s. Other states, facing similar budget woes, are watching the outcome closely because Oregon, after all, is a state that capped property taxes and locked a surplus tax rebate program into the constitution."
Trends can sometime emerge in small ways, and this news out of Oregon might be an indication that there is a shift in focus going on in our political economy.
Perhaps the FoxNews-sponsored Tea Party movement isn't the only social uprising underway. Maybe people are getting upset that they are losing some of their vital services, that their schools are crumbling, that their police and firefighters are treated like second-class citizens, and that all this has been happening because we have falsely believed that it's okay to let the rich and big corporations pay next to nothing to live in this democracy.
Let's see how much coverage this election results gets in the corporate media.
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