https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2877/Introduced Oregon proposed a $1000 tax on cars 20 years and older. Politicians must work overtime to try and figure out how to (*)(*)(*)(*) people???
Rich white liberals need cleaner air to breathe. The poor who elected those liberals to be their rulers can't be allowed to pollute as they go about their business.
This amounts to a tax on poor people, working people, seniors, illegals, students...all the people the leftist dominated Oregon legislature pretends to care about. Not even California (that little sister Oregon tries to emulate) would do something this stupid and counter productive.
Yes. A "brilliant" solution by the Committee on Revenue (also known as the Blood From A Stone Committee).
So that is only 3 x what my 1970 Mercury Montego Cyclone cost new --- so if I kept that car and was dumb enough to live in the same state as those gaboomkas I would be paying almost 5 x then I pay for my old big Ford gas guzzling SUV>
Oregon must be a little light on oxygen. I think this is one of those issues that will unite us all, left and right.
This might be fake, Slackercruster. I can't find one single news article on this, only another forum where someone brings it up and shows that same link. I tried typing the URL into my browser with just https://olis.leg.sate.or.us/ and it comes back "server not found". I think maybe someone is pulling our leg.
West Coast liberals have a non-stop war on the poor, knowing this most hits minorities. This is how they keep their community really, really white, while calling themselves liberal Democrats. Rather, they are limousine white segregationist into both racial and economic segregation.
http://koin.com/2017/02/10/speaker-kotek-old-car-tax-plan-is-doa/ PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A proposal in the Oregon House of Representatives would require owners of cars 20 years or older to pay a $1000 tax every 5 years. House Speaker Tina Kotek’s office told KOIN 6 News this bill isn’t going anywhere. House Bill 2877, sponsored by the Committee on Revenue, would create an “impact tax” with money raised going to the Department of Transportation Operating Fund. Under this plan, if a car is 20 years or older, the owner would need to pay the Department of Treasury $1000 every 5 years. That money would be due by January 31 of the year the tax was due. If the car’s owner didn’t pay the tax, the Treasury department could force collection. The tax would not apply to vehicles registered as antiques. When KOIN 6 News contacted Kotek’s office for comment, they said the plan was DOA (dead on arrival.) In an email, Kotek’s Communications Director Lindsey O’Brien said “the Speaker had nothing to do with this bill, and if you look it up you can see that it’s a Revenue committee bill, and the chair (Representative Barnhart) has already said he doesn’t plan to move it forward. So the bill is dead.”
