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[captiousduality]

My polling place is magical. It's just for like one condo community so unlike everywhere else that has waiting times of at least a half hour just to get to the table where they make sure you are registered, I was behind three people. Seriously

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[teflonspyder]

All no, definitely. Even with my commie Marxist leftist leanings I just can't condone throwing money at all but one or two of the things I saw on the ballot this morning. What's that, useless commission that has failed to change leadership or produce any reasonable results for the past five years? You want us to give you more money, and you PROMISE it'll be different than the last three times? OKAY!

[captiousduality]

The only thing worth funding there is Metro. You will pay one way or another. Do you want to subsidize transportation to people's jobs or pay their unemployment checks?

[teflonspyder]

How about we raise the sales tax on everyone, disproportionately leaning on those closest to ruin (and who coincidentally enough most benefit from the metro system)? Then we can do both!

[captiousduality]

Nah doesn't work that way. Sucks for them in what they do pay more on but then it's just a roundabout rate increase. But they buy less, so they don't pay as much.

[artifice_x]

I'd say voting all no would be less damaging. Seems like we're usually better off with less new junk piled onto the heap. I spent hours going through the bloated ballot in Oregon. Since we get to vote at home, at least I could sit there with my laptop and go through measure by measure and candidate by candidate

[captiousduality]

The measures are RARELY what they seem to be on first glance. They write them that way on purpose, We actually had an energy initiative that I had a horrible time trying to explain to people that I wasn't just opposed to because I'm a free market type. It mandated the electric companies spend x% of their retail cost on alternative energy and listed specifically the types of alternative energies. It also said they can only raise the rates for customers 1% which is OBVIOUSLY not enough for them to make up for the increased costs of development and the inefficiency of the types of energy given (it SPECIFICALLY gave 2% of retail cost to solar energy ffs). Totally a special interest ploy, force the electric companies to fund our startups but don't let the customer see how inefficient our power source is in their bills. Ugh.

[rainedoutlife]

Everyone knows that only whores say yes all the time.

If some bureaucrat is willing to spend time and energy drafting a bill for referendum, it's probably worth voting against.

[zaxec]

While I agree with your answer to the question posed, I must point out that whores say no when the price is wrong. Only sluts and nymphos say yes all the time.