Regardless of what the unions and their mouthpiece OUR Oregon says, this is a sales tax. It is a tax on gross receipts, not profits, and businesses WILL pass the cost on to consumers. I don't have an extra $600/yr to fund a retirement ponzi scheme, I've got a 5 year-old that needs clothes and school supplies. These bums need to keep their hands out of my damn pockets. 

Measure 97 is so bad that OUR Oregon tried to lean on the economists at PSU to lie in their analysis. The truth about measure 97 is that it will kill jobs and cost consumers. I think the acronym of the lobbing front group for the public unions says it all. They really think that the state belongs to them and treat us regular people as their personal ATM machines. Vote Pierce, Richardson, and anyone else without a D next to their name. It's time to throw the bums out!