2 absurd lies Measure 118 is selling

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

The pro-Measure 118 campaign is trying to sell voters on absurd reasons to vote for a massive 3% tax on business in Oregon.

The Measure 118 campaign claims that by boosting taxes you boost the local economy.  Well, in the past years Portland saw 10 big tax increases (property, income, gas tax, etc…) that impacted local businesses.  Since then, they have been losing population, losing taxpayers, losing business growth.  Businesses have been leaving so fast that the City of Portland has been forking over $250,000 tax cash vouchers to entice them to return.

Portland is #1 in office vacancies in the nation!!!

Portland is down on hotel stays (not even reached pre-Covid levels).

Then the faulty Measure 118 campaign says that by raising taxes you can “reduce poverty”?

Since Oregon falls into the top 5 biggest tax-and-spend states, per-capita, in the nation, under this Measure 118 logic, we should have nearly ended poverty.

Instead, Oregon ranks in tops for homeless states and top in unsheltered families.

High taxes create poverty.

We previously reported on Measure 118 (also known as IP #17)

“Initiative Petition 17 would greatly spike the corporate minimum tax on corporations. Initiative Petition 17  would hit corporations over $25 million in sales and it would levy their minimum tax rate at a new 3% tax.   This is on sales, and not profit, which means it would tax companies that are not making a profit. The money from this 3% tax would go towards paying every single person $750 a year, for anyone who has lived in Oregon for more than 200 days. This media is heralding this as a moment to vote on historic Universal Basic Income in Oregon. Universal Basic Income was tried in very progressive nations such as Canada and Finland — and it failed — and it was repealed! Many of the Universal basic Income experiments involve monthly checks to people.  Initiative Petition 17 is an annual amount.  This measure allows doling out actual cash to people, presumably homeless people. Already, Governor Tina Kotek has started a pilot program that gives out free $1,000 to homeless young people on a monthly basis.  Since liberals and the media define handing out money as a measure of success (and not actual results) there is very little standing in their way to expanding the program, because the more they subsidize homeless, the more homeless there is , and therefore the more taxpayers need to pay for more free money to handle the rise of homeless people caused by subsidies.This Universal basic Income will make things worse.”

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