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Archive Home > 2008 > September > 18 > Double-majority law goes back to voters

Double-majority law goes back to voters

In 1996, voters passed a measure that made it more difficult to increase taxes at the ballot box. That could change in November, when Oregon’s

By James Sinks / The Bulletin
September 18, 2008

SALEM — Supporters hailed the passage of Oregon’s double-majority law in 1996 as a contemporary equivalent of the Boston Tea Party: It showed, they said, that voters were fed up with at a system that allowed a small minority of people to foist new taxes on the population at....

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