This is a very important point in the article.  Please take note of it:

'As the Oregon Center for Public Policy explained in a recent study, “In the 1973-75 budget period, corporations paid 18.5 percent of all ­Oregon income taxes. Today they pay just 6.7 percent, a decline of nearly two-thirds. Absent any significant policy change, corporations are projected to pay just 4.6 percent of all Oregon income taxes by the mid-2020s.'

Measure 97 is the policy change we need.  We're not asking for the moon—just a 2.5% tax only for corporations that bring in $25+ million Oregon dollars per year.  This will move Oregon from having the absolute lowest corporate tax rate in the nation to... still the 42nd lowest.  Anyone who is afraid these corporations will leave our state, please consider... where are they going to go??  Which states would have a lower or more reasonable tax rate?  Not many.