Spending/Transportation Failed General Election
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PEAPAC Recommends: NO

Represents a collectivist mindset; coercively moves people from private cars to public transit; does not punish evildoers.

Summary

Authorizes state bonds to finance light rail in Portland and other transportation projects.

Biblical Reasoning

Again, this Measure does not meet the basic criteria of the punishment of evil-doers. Additionally, this Measure represents a collectivist mindset, opting to “solve” our transportation problems by moving people out of privately owned and maintained cars into publicly owned and maintained vehicles.

Proverbs 20:10 — “Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.”
Jeremiah 22:3 — “Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed.”
Psalm 72:2 — “Let him judge and govern your people with righteousness, and your poor and afflicted ones with judgment and justice.”

Election Results

47%
53%
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Voters rejected the light rail funding measure, with 53% voting No.

Full PEAPAC Analysis

Again, this Measure does not meet the basic criteria of the punishment of evil-doers. Additionally, this Measure represents a collectivist mindset, opting to “solve” our transportation problems by moving people out of privately owned and maintained cars into publicly owned and maintained vehicles.

It is one thing for the state to construct roads for use by private vehicles, quite another to then build public vehicles. This is not only wrong conceptually, it is also a huge waste of taxes. It is also coercion, using the sword of the state to force us to ante up more of our money for a service that we may be philosophically opposed to, and in any event, may never use.

It also appeals to the “free lunch” illusion, by talking of all the “free” federal money just waiting for us to take. We strongly recommend a NO vote.

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