Legislators gamble to try and ignore supermajority for tax increases, and impose it where it doesn't exist.

Sometimes using the faux practice of "journalism," reporters write the truth.

Unless they don't.

For a case in point, go here and read Peter Callaghan's tripe shilling democrat talking points.

First of all, the supermajority on tax increases, as Callahan knows, is the expressed will of the people. The courts, in continuing to reject the democrats repeated efforts to overturn that will, have reaffirmed it several times.

Get over it.

Secondly, any tax increase would be mandatory. That is, if such an increase were voted in, everyone would have to pay it. Well, except for the increasingly high number of border residents who would just do their shopping in Oregon and Idaho.

Thirdly, no one forces anyone to gamble, making that revenue source ENTIRELY voluntary.

Fourthly, using the plain language interpretation of what Callahan wrote:

That’s the state Supreme Court’s interpretation of a 1972 constitutional amendment that banned lotteries “except as specifically authorized upon the affirmative vote of sixty percent of the members of each house of the legislature.” Lotteries, the court has said, include nearly any form of gambling as long as it has the three magic components — consideration (a bet), chance and a prize.

There's nothing there that I can see that applies to the bill in question.

Lotteries are, in fact, lotteries. We go to a store, pay our money, get a ticket, and see if the number drawn on a daily or semi daily basis matches. The bill Callahan is wrongly describing does nothing like that. This is not referring to an expansion of "lotteries," and the plain language aspect so favored by our US Supreme Court (See Carcieri) would not support such a twisted interpretation. Continuing to defend race-based practices because the beneficiaries own you like the 13th Amendment doesn't exist, as is the case with the tribal ownership of the democrats, while this state allegedly so badly needs money that most people cannot afford mandatory tax increases while doing all they can to shelter the tribes, who pay this state precisely nothing while we dump tens of millions into social programs for these "sovereign nations" while they vacuum up non-tribal money and provide absolutely nothing in return appears to me to be the far bigger "gamble."

I, for one, will never vote for any kind of tax increase until this bill is passed. Ever.

So, to Callahan and his fellow democrats, I offer you this opportunity: Feel free to reject the GOP bill. Force everyone in this state, whether they can afford it or not, to pay yet another in the never-ending tax increases you so love. Make sure the democrats continue to turn away from a VOLUNTARY $300 million revenue stream that only those who can afford it will pay, instead.

I, for one, will never vote for any kind of tax increase until this bill is passed.  Ever.

But trumpeting garbage like these democrat talking points? You really should give tat a rest either way.