Wells Fargo, Comcast, Chevron and the others, including the top 10 mentioned in this article, are spending between 2 and 3 times as much as the pro-M97 contributors. This is what they are calculating it will take to put out enough propaganda to defeat the measure, although they will pay much more if they have to. They know that Oregon has the lowest corporate taxes in the nation. They have to draw attention away from that. This is a contest between the wealthiest corporations and Oregon--especially some of of Oregon's least well off. 

This tax affects less than 1% of all businesses registered in Oregon. They are all large and almost all are multi-state corporations who take their profits out of state. They are not bad guys. They are just doing what is in their business interest. It's up to us to stand up for the schools, the sick, the elderly poor. It's up to us to pass laws that address the damaging inequalities that have arisen in our system, to use democracy to do so.