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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By James Sinks / The Bulletin
October 24, 2006
SALEM - On the campaign trail, it is the five-letter word.
Taxes.
Nobody particularly likes paying them - but taxes are the lifeblood of schools, prisons, subsidized health care and all of the other programs depended upon by the public and funded by government.
And in the race between....