Man, increasing taxes on health care providers, hospitals, and health care insurance companies is simply terribly bad news.  Are Oregonians so stupid as to not realize that this is going to increase the cost of health care in Oregon?  

These taxes will all get passed onto ordinary citizens, just like the new increased gas tax will.  

There needs to be a revolution in Oregon's Democratic Party.  The current party leadership is leading our state into ruin.  There are many more honest & decent Democrats like Senator. Mark Hass, who realize how destructive a gross receipts tax would be on our economy.  An increase to Oregon's Corporate Tax rate is the only fair solution.   But so many Democratic leaders have now become corrupt, and have been paid off by the government employee unions and large corporations, that they will not even consider the proposal Hass made.

That alone clearly demonstrates how utterly corrupt our state leaders have become.   When will Oregonians realize that?