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Wednesday, July 20, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
A family outing...
Timed events
will test cyclists
Cyclists will test their
mettle in Sisters 2 Summit,
a timed hill climb up
Three Creek Road, next
Sunday.
Action begins at 10 a.m.
Sunday, July 24, with rid-
ers meeting at Village Green
Park.
After the climb, the event
then will transfer to Indian
Ford Campground for an out-
and-back timed run on Indian
Ford Road.
These two are classic
Sisters local cycling routes
where riders can test their
fitness.
After the event, at 4 p.m.
there will be a Sisters Cycling
barbecue for local cyclists.
Cost to cover permits and
food will be $30 for both
stages of the event. Traffic
rules apply.
For more information
contact Andrew.Loscutoff@
gmail.com.
Businesses raise $5M
to fight mega tax hike
By kristena hansen
Associated Press
PORTLAND (AP) — A
coalition of business heavy-
weights has revealed a $5.26
million war chest of dona-
tions it has been assembling
during the past year to fight
Initiative Petition 28 — the
public unions’ massive corpo-
rate tax-hike proposal headed
for the November ballot.
L a u n c h i n g w h a t ’s
expected to be one of
Oregon’s most expensive
political brawls to date,
Defeat The Tax On Oregon
Sales filed initial campaign
paperwork late Monday with
the state showing almost 500
corporate donors opposing
the $3 billion annual tax pro-
posal on big business.
Nike Inc., Walmart,
Comcast,
Costco,
Weyerhaeuser Co. and
Macy’s are some of the big-
gest names on the list, accord-
ing to the political action
committee’s filings with the
Oregon Secretary of State.
The bulk of the donations
themselves came from certain
industries such as car dealer-
ships, grocers, utilities and
insurance companies — sec-
tors of the economy that, by
the state’s estimates, would
be among the hardest-hit by
Initiative Petition 28.
So far, the coalition has
about $3.42 million worth
of cash left to spend versus
the $450,000 in mostly in-
kind donations the Initiative
Petition 28 campaign has
raised since last year — a
fraction of the tens of mil-
lions of dollars both sides are
expected to dole out ahead of
Election Day.
“We’ve put a solid foun-
dation in place to clearly
communicate with Oregon
voters that they will be the
ones paying most of this
regressive tax through higher
prices for nearly everything
they buy — groceries, gaso-
line, insurance, medicines,
electricity, phones, medical
care — costing the average
Oregon household over $600
more per year,” Rebecca
Tweed, the coalition’s cam-
paign coordinator, said in a
statement.
Under Initiative Petition
28, the biggest 1,000
businesses registered as
C-corporations with $25
million-plus in annual sales
would pay a minimum
$30,000 tax, plus a so-called
gross receipts tax of 2.5 per-
cent on anything above that
sales threshold.
The generated revenues
would expand the state’s gen-
eral fund by more than one-
quarter — all of which the
measure broadly earmarks
for education, health care and
senior services, although the
Legislature could spend it
however it wants. Businesses’
share of Oregon’s annual tax
base, which is heavily reliant
on personal income in lieu
of a sales tax, would jump
from about 5 percent today to
more than 20 percent under
Initiative Petition 28.
The lion’s share of
Initiative Petition 28 cam-
paign funds so far are in-
kind contributions from Our
Oregon, the proposal’s union-
backed political nonprofit.
Cash donations came from
such groups as the Oregon
Education Association and
SEUI Local 503, records
show.
In a statement to The
Associated Press, Initiative
Petition 28 campaign spokes-
woman Katherine Driessen
said it’s not surprising big
companies “such as Comcast,
Walmart, and Wells Fargo
plan to spend millions of dol-
lars to continue avoiding pay-
ing their fair share in Oregon
... and we’re ready.”
photo by karen hulbert
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