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Guns readied for Measure 6 showdown
Boe promises
info for limit
discussion
By KEVIN HARDEN
Of the Emerald
The furor over Oregon’s controversial property tax limitation meas
ure, is beginning to spread, but the legislature should stay out of the
fight, Senate Pres. Jason Boe said Friday.
No matter what happens, the Legislature should stick to the facts
about November’s Measure 6 and leave the emotional rhetoric to the
soap box, Boe said. But legislators would be deaf if they did not hear a
message out of the tax revolt.
“There's no question that the voters are trying to give leaders a
message,” he admitted. “And that is to watch how they spend the tax
dollars. ’
Speaking at a meeting of the Lane County Labor Forum, Boe
termed the tax limitation a “bullet’’ that has pierced the armor of state
and local government.
“It’s my strong opinion that the bullet loaded into the Jarvis-Gann
(California tax limitation leaders) gun in California has passed through
the body of state government and is heading straight toward Washing
ton, D.C.” Boe said.
Congress is to blame for a lot of the problems faced by taxpayers
today, he added. Unchecked federal spending, a budget based on a
huge deficit and too many worthless programs have contributed to
double-digit inflation, he said.
“Congress is the ultimate destination of the Jarvis-Gann measure,”
Boe said. "The people are just grabbing at local government because
they can right now.”
Grabbing local government by the throat may not solve the problem
however. Boe says the only way to have real tax reform is to hit the
federal government. And that is exactly what he intends to do.
Boe. who was in Lane County for two days to attend the Bach
Choral Festival, will be leaving next week for Washington, D.C., to
testify before a congressional committtee. While in the nation's capitol.
he intends to deliver one simple message: cut federal spending.
Only when the federal government cuts its spending and reduces
its budget will the taxpayers of Oregon, California and every other state,
see a real improvement in the economy. Boe said.
Until that happens, the fight over Oregon’s Measure 6 will continue.
But a state government should stay away from an emotional battle over
the issue, because it may go the way of the California Legislature, he
speculated.
Public opinion was evenly divided over that state's Proposition 13
until their legislature started a campaign based on the "doomsday
theory, according to Boe. Within four weeks of that campaign, public
opinion shifted to nearly double the support for the measure.
Why such a shift in support? Because the combined efforts of the
legislature, state labor parties and other political groups made the
campaign appear to be a big government versus the little man" fight.
And Boe thinks Oregon should learn from California's mistakes.
"The people weren't ready to believe government and business
and labor and all their doomsday talk."
To guard against that, Boe and the State Revenue Office are
preparing a "massive" tax information campaign scheduled to begin in
August.
That campaign will give each taxpayer a computer print-out show
ing what will happen to that area if Measure 6 is approved in November.
“We want them to be able to plug the tax formula in and see how it
(the tax limitation) will affect them," he said. “But we must have factual
information right now, because the proponents of the measure are not
giving out good information."
If Measure 6 is approved, the Legislature may be forced to push for
a sales tax or raise state income taxes to make up for the lost revenue,
Boe said. Although state voters have turned down repeated efforts to
implement a sales tax, one might be needed to keep state services
functioning.
Local control may also be hurt if the measure is approved, Boe
noted. Money that is now generated by tax revenues to run essential
dvic services would have to come from somewhere else. Maybe out
side the Legislature.
“I think that the people understand the services they are now
getting on the local level would have to come from Salem, or worse yet,
Washington, D.C., if the limitation passes.
If Measure 6 isn’t approved, Boe said the Legislature would begin
consideration of two tax relief programs. One program would hold
government spending to the Consumer Price Index. The other would
limit property taxes to just three percent of the adjusted gross income of
the taxpayer.
Although the programs would aid the taxpayer, they would mean
the end of the state’s Homeowner and Renter Relief Program, which
would have to be dismantled to provide funding for them, Boe pointed
out
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Weaver: Capitol
Hill must hear
the complaints
By KEVIN HARDEN
Of the Emerald
Other people may talk about tax
reform, but Jim Weaver,
D-Eugene, takes budget cuts
seriously. At least that’s what he
said Friday.
Weaver, who was in Eugene to
meet with area voters and report
how work is going in Congress,
told reporters that tax revolt fever
has reached Washington, D.C.
Congress may not get the mes
sage behind California's Proposi
tion 13, but he’s been trying to cut
the federal budget for several
years, Weaver said.
Although he has yet to take a
position on Oregon’s Measure 6,
Weaver said his congressional
voting record is a testimony to his
support of tax reform.
“People have reached the end
of their limits,” he declared. “They
demand cuts in the budget and
they’re going to have to get them.
"Thejriajor theme in Congress
today is cutting the budget. The
people demand it and inflation
makes it essential.”
Out of 10 appropriations bills
that have reached the house of
representatives for a vote,
Weaver has voted to cut money
from nine budgets. So far, those
cuts have been selective and not a
“meat axe" approach, he said.
But there may be times when a
meat axe is necessary to make a
federal program work correctly.
We know there’s waste in gov
ernment and overpayment so we
just cut the whole program across
the board in order to force the
Jim Weaver
program’s administrator to cut
spending.”
While Victor Atiyeh, Republican
Nominee for governor, and Sen
ate Pres. Jason Boe charac
terized California's property tax
limitation as a “bullet” aimed at
the federal government, Weaver
said he was just as “fast on the
draw" as the tax revolutionaries.
“I’m a pretty good gunslinger
myself, and I’m as fast on the draw
when it comes to cuts to the fed
eral budget.”
Government spending must be
cut drastically, Weaver said. Until
cuts are made, the people will be
frustrated and take their anger out
on local government.
“The revolt of the people is
being heard and will continue to
be heard in Congress,” he said.
Rep endorses tax limitation as war
against government overspending
By KEVIN HARDEN
Of the Emerald
Some call it a revolution. Some even call it the
taxpayers’ last stand. But Rep. Al Shaw,
R-Roseburg, calls it war.
Shaw, a leader of Oregon's property tax limita
tion petition, said Friday the tax measure on the
November general election ballot will be the “big
stick" the state's taxpayers will use to regain con
trol of their government.
Speaking at a gathering of Lane County Repub
licans, Shaw said Oregon's Measure 6 was the
only alternative the state s voters had to keep their
homes and cut state spending. People are mad,
and the one-and-one-half percent tax limitation
is the only vehicle they have to vent their anger, he
said.
Shaw's involvement in the limitation initiative
petition drive began nearly two years ago during
his first session at the Legislature. State govern
ment wouldn’t help the taxpayer then, so the peo
ple had to take matters into their own hands, he
said.
Following Jim Whittenburg, a Portland lobbyist
who began the initiative petition drive to place the
tax limitation measure on the November ballot,
Shaw rallied Southern Oregon taxpayers into a
signature gathering force. Less than three months
and 200,000 signatures later, Shaw, Whittenburg
and several other petition leaders brought their
plan to the voters.
It’s up to the voters now, he observed. But
Shaw allowed that the tax fight won’t end when
the votes are tabulated in November. After prop
erty taxes, the people will attack government
spending.
“You’re participating in one of the greatest in
ternal struggles this country has seen in 200
years,” Shaw said. “The real battle is between the
people and the government.”
And the struggle for control is between an
ever-expanding bureaucracy and the people,
Shaw added. And it may be only a matter of time
before the people regain control of their govern
ment.
“This struggle has been going on for years,” he
said. “But it surfaced recently when people found
a vehicle they could ride on that was pointed in the
right direction.”
Shaw said the tax limitation was the last alterna
tive left to the voters. Elected officials haven’t
listened to pleas to cut taxes and expenditures, so
the people had to take drastic steps.
“The people have been frustrated and helpless
and politically impotent over the years and they
are now venting their anger.”
Measure 6, Shaw said, is a weapon to be used
by voters to get control of their government.
“This initiative is a club; not a very smooth or
symmetric club, like a baseball bat, but like a
piece of firewood. And people are grabbing it and
running with it.”
That “club" will be used to first beat down taxes,
and then beat down spending, he said.
“The simple conviction behind the tax limitation
is to make less money available for government to
spend. If elected officials lack the courage to say
no to spending, then the people will have to do it
through the initiative process.”
Although the measure has been called a “mine
field” of legal problems, Shaw said the flaws are
“insignificant" and can be worked out by a “re
sponsible” Legislature.
“Out of all this will come good management,”
he predicted. “People will begin to see the man
agement and begin to realize that they are the
dominant force.
“This isn’t radical, it is a common sense asser
tion by people to restore Americanism and the
freedoms that lives were spent for in our wars.”
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