It seems that every day there’s a new letter in the newspaper talking about how the “have nots” voted to gouge the “haves” in order to pay for state services. So, is that actually true?
I took a look at the county by county results and compared that with the expected impact on the voters of each county.
There is a very weak, basically insignificant correlation between the percentage of each county that voted for 66 and the percentage that will see a tax cut. Not much to see here.
Looking at voting results versus the percent of each county’s population that is seeing their taxes go up was more interesting.
Here, the correlation is much stronger, but not in the direction the “No on 66” crowd would have you believe.
It could be that the poorer people in wealthier counties simply voted overwhelmingly to gouge their neighbors, which is certainly possible, in which case the “no on 66” crowd would have a point. We won’t know for sure unless some detailed polling is done.
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