Lawmakers: 100% gas tax hike, 400% wage tax hike

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

Oregon State Senator Khanh Pham, D-Portland, and Oregon State Representative Mark Gamba, D-Milwaukie, of the Joint Committee on Transportation have held a press conference on the Oregon State Capitol steps announcing their new proposal for the Oregon transportation package, which aims to raise a billion to nearly two billion in new road taxes.

Here are the key details to the plan:

• 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.
• 50% DMV increase.   This would be an increase on vehicle registration fees issued by DMV.
• 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.
• New tax on new and used cars.  This creates an entirely new tax on cars.  For new cars, the tax would be 2%, and 1% for used vehicles.  The tax would kick-in on cars sold for more than $10,000.  There is currently only a tax on new cars.  This tax would expand the new car tax and now include used cars.

This massive road tax plan was introduced by a handful of Oregon liberal Democratic lawmakers.

Keep in mind that Oregon has one of the highest gas prices in America because they have both a (1) high state gas tax and (2) a hidden gas tax called the Clean Fuels Program.   Now, under this new proposal, Oregon would continue to pay even higher gas prices as it goes up 100%.   This likely puts Oregon into $5.00 gas prices for a long time,

Your gas taxes are being used to fund a massive covering of the Interstate Highway in Portland to build a park, some businesses and housing as seen below.

Oregon transportation dollars are being used to build very big and costly bridges where cars are not allowed to cross them (but buses are).  Like the Tilikum Bridge in Portland.

Remember, Oregonians have been in non-stop transportation tax increase for a long time:

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