Willamette Week blasts Measure 120 gas tax

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

Willamette Week has endorsed a NO vote on the Measure 120 gas tax.

Here are some of their juicy comments:

“The first thing to know about Measure 120 is that Oregon’s Democratic leaders, its presumptive supporters, have launched no organized campaign on its behalf… Clearly, Democrats have decided the measure is bad politics, which is why they are treating it as if smells like day-old roadkill and trying to keep it as far from the November election as possible.”

“Still, the taxes at play are regressive—they take more from the poor than the rich—and many people are already not feeling flush right now.”

“Yet Democrats have questions of their own to answer, the most pressing of which is: What would the tax even do? The budget bandaging in February makes us wonder if the department’s funding woes are as acute as its leaders suggest.To be sure, the cuts that balanced the budget for now don’t all trim fat. One, for example, clips a fund to build infrastructure for safer routes to school.But proponents of the measure have not made a strong case of what might go wrong if it doesn’t pass. In fact, the conversation in Salem has largely been driven by uncertainty around public sector jobs. Unions are doing their part by lobbying on that basis, but this is not a serious argument for why taxpayers should fund government agencies.”

Who are we to question the wisdom of the media.  Please vote No on Measure 120’s gas tax hike.

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