Update: 100% gas tax hike, Kicker debate, gun bill

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

Here is a list of three important updates on gun control, he people’s Kicker Tax Refund, and the new transportation package.

• Massive transportation tax package:  A group of Democratic Senators and Representatives introduced their billion-dollar transportation package.  It includes a 100% gas tax increase. This would raise the current gas tax from 40-cent to 80-cents.  Oregon already has a gas tax that is in the top in ten in the nation. A 50% DMV increase.   This would be an increase on vehicle registration fees issued by DMV.  A 400% wage tax increase.  There is currently a transportation payroll tax on Oregon wages.  The payroll tax would increase from 0.1% to 0.5%, a 400% increase, in a staggered step increase until completion in 2032.  Even worse, this big increase would go to transit costs — not roads. A new tax on new and used cars.  Read more here.

• A second gas-tax plan was just released this morning!!! See OPB “Oregon Democrats prepare to release major transportation funding bill“.

• Taking the people’s Kicker Income Tax Refund.  KOIN-TV interviewed the Oregon Senate President Rob Wagner on Kotek’s recent plan to raid the Kicker to fund fighting wildfires.  Senate President Wagner said, “The kicker is something people are interested in talking about.  It would have to be means tested and highly focused”.  This comes roughly one week after Kotek floated the Kicker raid idea.   The fact that two of Oregon’s highest elected officials are talking about taking the people’s kicker at the same time is a warning.

•  Senate Passes SB 243: The Oregon Senate recently passed Senate Bill 243, which is called the gun-control omnibus package. SB 696 creates the crime of unlawful manufacturing, transporting, or transferring of a “rapid-fire activator,” also known as a bump-stock. Senate Bill 698 also expands gun-free zones by allowing government bodies to adopt policies that prohibit firearms, including concealed handgun license holders.

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