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When we had the Democratic candidates for governor here this week it was almost like eavesdropping on a conversation between friends. The two men, though they're running against each other now, have a 30 year history of being close.
This conversation will be quite different. The four Republican candidates for governor who will join us couldn't be more different. There's the founder of the semiconductor company Pixelworks, Allen Alley; the former Blazers player, Chris Dudley; the state senator John Lim; and the state's initiave king, Bill Sizemore.
Among other things, when they're together they discuss whether the state needs an insider or an outsider as the head of the state in Salem. They explore jobs, economic growth, taxes, and government spending. With us they'll talk about all of that — and answer your questions. What do you want to know from these candidates who are running to become the next governor of Oregon?
You can post your questions for the candidates here or show up for the live event and have a chance to pose them in person.
This show will be recorded for TV and radio, in front of a studio audience, on Wednesday, May 5th at 7 pm at OPB in Portland. Everyone is welcome. Seating will be first-come, first-seated and the doors open at 6 pm.
It will broadcast on Thursday, May 6th at 9 am (and 9 pm) and on OPB TV at 9 pm.
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*all Republican candidates for Governor
Tagged as: 2010 election · governor
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The Oregon Department of Revenue has been reluctant to aggressively pursue tax enforcement strategies. Yet the Department itself estimates that $1.2 billion of Oregon's taxes are uncollected each year because of fraud, errors and filing but not paying.
If you are governor, what would be your directions to your director of the DOR? -
Where do you stand on federal comprehensive immigration reform and the approach to immigrants now being taken in Arizona?
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I want to know what you will do as Governor to get people like me back to work! The current Want-wit, who sure seems like a DINO (Democrat In Name Only) and acts like a Republican hasn't done jack-sh*t to help anyone who is any sector other than the "hard-hat trades."
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This question is specifically for Tax-Evasionist Bill Sizemore:
Do you honestly expect anyone to contribute to your campaign. let alone vote for you, when you are ineligible to serve in any elected office due to your failure, indeed, refusal to pay your taxes?
Yes, I know you are an anti-tax crusader, and that you are responsible for the sorry state our schools are in, thanks to Measure 5, but get real, and go turn yourself in, like you know you should, you criminal.
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The reason the schools are in the state they are in is due to the spending done by and for the administration, not due to taxes. If we used a voucher system instead of mandatory zoning, that is where you live determines where you go to school, they would have much of what they need to function.
In fact, bad taxation laws are driving businesses out of the state and therefore breaking the states bank.
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For Mr. Sizemore: Given your track record of anti-labor unions, anti-tax and current legal situation, how do you intend to reach out and achieve at least 51% of the vote to become our next Governor during your campaign.
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Will any candidate consider moving away from the current model for "dealing with the drug problem", a problem that is rooted in the laws themselves, which admittedly has created a successful "business model", if you are interested in growing the "prison-industrial complex"? Specifically, would you explicitly shift law/policy and budget/expenditure away from the "war on drugs", and apply these savings to education & health care in general (i.e. harm reduction)?
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What is the plan to overhaul the tax code (a ground up redo) besides repealing 66 & 67?
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To all candidates: If you believe the state has a spending problem, as well as a revenue problem, how would you prioritize and reduce spending? Public sector employees have economic packages (pay, health benefits without cost, and defined benefit pensions) which are FAR in excess of the private sector's packages in Oregon according to the statistics. Some Governors (such as New Jersey's Gov Christie) have decided to attack the cost side, not just the revenue side, of state deficits...will you?
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Allen Alley said on Sunday night that in years where the Kicker Kicks, he would keep the first 2% of the kicker money that is supposed to be returned to the taxpayers and put it away into a "rainy day fund".
Can you ask Allen Alley whether or not he believes his plan to keep some of the kicker that would otherwise go to back to the taxpayers is a tax increase?
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A large negative part of politics today is the tendancy to point fingers when things go badly. When I say the word "accountability", what does that mean do you personally, and how do you intend to inspire it in those around you?
- Dan N, Corvallis OR
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Allen Alley said, “Also in those years where the kicker kicks, that 0-2% above the budget level, we currently just spend it. What I would do is reserve that as well…build up rainy-day funds.” – Allen Alley on KATU debate Sunday, May 2nd 2010
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The host's question at the beginning was excellent: what is the minimum acceptable business tax? Your guests proceeded to provide their answer: $0.
One guest even invoked Reagan's supply side/trickle down economics...which has long since been debunked by everyone that thinks about how things actually work instead of how conservative fundamentalists would like them to be.
What your guests advocate is irresponsibility to serve their own interests...and nothing else. How much societal distruction has to occur before this approach is abandoned.
All you have to do to debunk the theory that businesses in Oregon are over-taxed is to compare their tax burden with that of any state with which we compete: e.g. in technology...Silicon Valley, New York, etc. The taxes in those places are *not* lower...yet they have much more entrepreneurial and innovative startup business creation.
It's the *culture* of those places that makes them successful and competitive...not tax policy. Our business culture is old, conservative, ignorant and poor about doing innovation (at least in technology), and as your guests have demonstrated: socially irresponsible. That's what should be fixed. When that's fixed, we will have a vibrant environment for businesses...and have new jobs coming to Oregon.
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It seems that, in order to have rich businesspeople, a Republican may be the best bet. But, isn't that just more of the good old trend that so many Americans are questioning as the main purpose of our Country? What if "rich Rich" aren't the healthiest future for our children's inheritance?
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How do Federal and State governments secure the borders?
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Your guests are talking about incentives for starting businesses in Oregon.
Question: What incentives are they refering to? Is there anything they recognize as incentives for starting businesses *other* than more money for them?
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Do you plan to enforce revenue producing law or do you plan to continue reducing revenue to the government?