Oregon daily emerald., April 19, 1973, Page 3, Image 3

McCall
urges
active
student
support
of tax
reform
plan
Oregon Governor Tom McCall urged active
student support of his tax reform plan in a speech
made at the University Wednesday afternoon.
By DREX HEIKES
Of the Emerald
The governor said students should campaign
for the plan which he felt “offered benefits to ren
ters for the first time.” The plan would provide a
nine per cent tax relief for renters. McCall pointed
out that renters now pay a property tax, “it may be
hidden in the rent, but it’s a tax.” He said the plan
would return about $100 annually to a student who
now pays $1200 a year in rent.
The governor dismissed accusations that
personal income tax increases would hurt the
student. McCall said that people earning $3000 a
year would experience a tax increase of $18 and
(hose receiving an annual income of $5000 would
have their taxes raised $51.
McCall was critical of claims that the plan
would take away local control of schools. ‘‘We’re
proposing that the state pay about 95 per cent of
local school operating costs. Some opponents say
the state shouldn’t provide more than 60 per cent
financing if local control of schools is to be main
tained. I’m still scratching my head wondering how
local control is salvaged at 60 per cent support and
lost at 95 per cent.” McCall added that “the ballot
measure specifically says that one of the purposes
of the act is ‘to strengthen the ability of each local
school board.’ ”
The governor said the plan would get rid of the
“tin cup” actions of school board members. McCall
defined “tin cup” actions as the summer-long ef
forts of board members to gather enough money
“simply to determine if the school doors will open in
the fall.”
McCall accused corporations who opposed the
tax reform plan, seeking instead “tax reforms that
would have people paying exactly the same
amounts they paid before.”
McCall also criticized opponents of the plan who
condemned the bill without offering a better
solution. The governor said the same opponents
admitted that the present tax structure was very
inadequate.
Oregon Senate President Jason Boe, who ac
companied McCall to Eugene, called the plan
“massive” and articulated that student support
would be very important in its passage. Boe had
praise for the structure of the plan which he said
was based on the ability to pay and not on the
amount of property owned. People who want “fair
and equal education should take it upon themselves
to work for the reform,” he said. Boe called the plan
“a tax reform plan that people can be proud of.”
I McCall’s stop in Eugene is one of many he has
made throughout the state in the past weeks
campaigning for passage of his plan. The plan will
be brought before the voters in a special election
May 1.
The governor said that specific questions about
the plan and its effect on an individual or family
could be obtained by calling 1-800-452-0330 toll free.
Panel member says abortion
not a privilege but a right
Women should stop thinking of
abortion as a privilege and begin
considering it a right, according
to Sue Johnson, a representative
of Planned Parenthood in
Eugene.
Johnson was one member of a
panel on abortion presented
Tuesday night by the University
Feminists. Other panel members
included Margaret Packard, law
student, and Margie Cundy, a
member of Oregon’s Women’s
Political Caucus.
Johnson said that women are
“coming in the back door” for
abortions right now. “We’ve got
to raise the consciousness of
women,” she said, so that
collectively they will press for
necessary abortion change.
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Margaret Packard, a law
student at the University,
outlined her interpretation of the
Supreme Court decision con
cerning abortion. Citing two
landmark cases, Packard said
that, as the decision stands right
now, individual states are limited
in the extent to which they can
institute abortion restrictions.
“There are three grounds on
which the state may legislate
abortion,” she said. “Protection
of a person’s right to privacy,
protection of the health of the
mother, and preservation of
future We.”
Women’s Political Caucus
member Margie Cundy discussed
several bills now in the Oregon
Legislature. “There are five bills
in the legislature right now,” she
said. “I personally am working
with SB 698, which goes along
with the Supreme Court
decision.” The proposed bill does
not require consent of spouse or
parent, according to Cundy. “But
would you believe,” she said, “we
couldn’t find a single woman
legislator who was interested in
sponsoring the bill.”
The panel members all agreed
that some form of organized
action is necessary to insure fair
abortion legislation. Letter
writing campaigns to Salem,
women pickets and extensive use
of the mass media were among
suggestions for mobilizing action.
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