8 Oregon Laws That Will Wreck Your Way of Life
By Tootie Smith
Oregon state government soon
to sink under the stupidity of its own ideas.
1. $26 billion
PERS retirement debt. Originally started as an incentive to give retirement to
people to work in government back when the jobs paid little. Today through
shrewd union negotiations for higher and higher wages and willing elected
officials who gladly accepted tons of union cash to support their elections, we
see a debt too big to pay.
2. State wide rent
control that limited, (or guaranteed) 7% rent increases plus inflation. This
attempt to control costs will backfire as landlords immediately raised their
rents or sold their properties to larger conglomerates opting for a more stable
investment.
3. Massive Gun
control bills aimed to disarm what politicians can’t control — your speech.
4. Remove measure
50 property tax limitations could increase your property taxes by as 40%.
5. Removed
mortgage interest deductions on primary and secondary residences, for many.
6. $2 billion
gross sales tax on businesses. Politicians think you will think this is a tax
on someone else, so it won’t matter. It’s those big bad businesses that gives
us jobs, 401K’s and the products we demand to buy or the services we need.
7. Mandatory
vaccinations that take away parental choice with consultation with your doctor
and gives Oregon Health Authority the power to forcibly inject your children
with drugs.
8. Increased taxes
on cell phones, beer, wine, cigarettes, vapors, groceries, fuel for cars and
trucks, home heating oil, planes, trains and automobiles, timber and
agriculture.
It’s not all bleak. There’s a fix. Your vote
matters and there’s an election just around the corner