How can anyone be surprised?  We are looking at an onerous tax increase on almost everyone in Oregon.  The people fighting the increase should not be expected to support the people supporting it.  

Also You may think that it's time for these rich corporations to pay more but it doesn't work that way.  If taxes go up on a corporation, then prices to the consumer will increase.  The cost of gasoline will go up,  likewise anything from companies like Fred Meyer, Costco, Safeway.  How about companies like Ford, GM and Chrysler?  Or PGE, PP&L, Northwest Natural.  Or Verizon, AT&T and others.  So we will have increase in the cost of food, gas, utilities, and almost everything.

A study showed that this measure was expected to increase the number of public employees in the state by 33,000.  It also was expected to decrease the number of private employees by 13,000.  If you carry that to its logical extreme pretty soon everyone will be a public employee and the will be no private employees.