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Sizemore pushes new tax bills
But the Oregon Public
Employees Union argues
that the tax hills are anti
worker and anti-union
By Kari Thorene
Higher Education Reporter
The Oregon Public Employees
Union and the Portland-based
Oregon Taxpayers United are
preparing early for the 1998 battle
overOTU initiatives.
“Our goal for 1998 is to educate
people and the members of our
union so they know the true na
ture of these bills,” said Sue Bet
tin, president of the University’s
local chapter of the OPEU. The
bills are essentially anti-worker
and anti-union, she said.
Bill Sizemore, president and
founder of OTU, said its goals are
to empower Oregon taxpayers.
“We want to limit the growth of
government spending and give
taxpayers the highest quality for
the lowest price by injecting com
petition into the equation,” he
said.
The initiatives are wide-reach
ing and disparate. They include a
freeze on state and local govern
ment spending, elimination of
government payroll deductions
for campaign and political pur
poses and compulsory opening of
government contracts.
The “Measure to Limit Govern
ment Spending” would tie in
creases in spending by state and
local governments to increases in
inflation and population only and
would compel governments to re
duce income taxes if there is a pro
jected surplus. The two goals of
the bill are to lower state income
tax rates and to “discourage gov
ernments from finding new ways
to extract money from citizens be
cause if politicians can’t spend the
money, then there will be no moti
vation for them to find ways to in
crease revenues,” according to an
OTU statement.
“The bill imposes tight spend
ing limits, locking in the already
inadequate levels of funding for
public services," Bettin said.
Without the option to increase
funding, money for public ser
vices will become increasingly
scarce, forcing people to chose be
tween public services because of
limited resources, she said.
But Sizemore said the initiative
has a safety valve in case of fund
ing emergencies. “Voters have the
option to override the limits,” he
said. “But it probably won’t hap
pen. The trend in America is to
ward less government, lower tax
es. more individual responsibility.
That precludes an increase in
spending.”
Bettin said a likely scenario for
the impacts of a budget crunch un
der the initiative is that students
would have to “take up the slack"
for increasing education costs.
The “Measure to Prohibit Gov
ernments from Collecting Political
Funds” would eliminate payroll
deductions used for political pur
poses from government employ
ees' paychecks. According to the
OTU statement, “This measure
will force our opponents to collect
their campaign funds the same
way we do ours, from individual
citizens who are willing to con
tribute.”
Both Sizemore and OPEII offi
cials agree that this is a direct at
tack on the OPEU’s funding mech
anism.
“They collect funds used for
politics at the taxpayers’ expense,
and it’s an unfairadvantage,” Size
more said. “We don’t think you
can have fair elections if govern
ments collect political funds for
one side and not the other.”
But Bettin said it’s a legitimate
form of fund raising. “Payroll de
ductions are used for everything
— insurance payments, car pay
ments, United Way — those can
all be deductions.” Singling out
union dues amounts to content
based discrimination because all
other reasons for fund raising
would remain legal and legiti
mate, Bettin said.
Bettin added that joining the
union and contributing to the po
litical campaign are voluntary
acts, and that OPEU members
should be allowed to do whatever
they want with their paychecks,
whether it’s through a payroll de
duction or not.
The initiative titled "Measure to
Require Giving Voters the Option
of Contracting Out Government
Services When Private Sector Bid
ding Would Save More Than 20
Percent Over Public Sector
Provider" would open public ser
vices to private-sector bidding.
If private companies can prove
they will providea 20 percent sav
ings over the public agency doing
the service, the government will
have to contract the service out or
refer it to the voters if the initiative
passes. For example, Sizemore
said he believes the state could
save substantially if it privatizes
prisons.
“We believe that state costs are
30 to 50 percent higher,” Sizemore
said. “If they aren’t, the public sec
tor has nothing to worry about. But
with state prisons, we could rou
tinely get bids 28 to 29 percent less
if they were private.”
But Bettin said the way the pri
vate companies would get savings
is by reducing wages and benefits,
and by proxy the quality of ser
vices rendered. “It would turn
these jobs into minimum wage,
no-benefit jobs. People will care
less about the quality of work
they’re doing,” she said.
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