Expiration of the tax cut will cost Central Oregon one hundred thirty million dollars.
Still using use round numbers to make it easier for Tea Baggers and Republicans to understand: there are roughly two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) people on The High Desert, or roughly sixty-two thousand five hundred (62,500) families in Central Oregon – from Warm Springs to Gilchrest/LaPine, Black Butte to Post. Forty (40) dollars per week times fifty-two (52) weeks in a year equals two thousand and eighty (2,080) dollars lost per year, two thousand and eighty (2,080) dollars not spent in the local economy. Two thousand and eighty (2,080) dollars lost per year times sixty-two thousand five hundred (62,500) families on The High Desert equals one hundred thirty million dollars (130,000,000) dollars not spent in the Central Oregon economy. Not spent here.
One hundred thirty million dollars (130,000,000) dollars a year is what Greg Walden and the Tea Baggers have just cost the Central Oregon economy.
