The Democrats say they won’t go after the kicker this session or this year. They’ve already raised taxes spectacularly, but they probably looked at the latest polling and their email in boxes and saw—job losses, disaffection, businesses leaving. From the Zero today:

Courtney and other legislative leaders said the bitter fight over Measures 66 and 67 – which raised taxes on corporations and higher-income households – so polarized the state that the climate was all wrong to take on the kicker.  In one way or another, Courtney and House Speaker Dave Hunt, D-Gladstone, have been saying this since the Jan. 26 tax election.