Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Page A-9
TALES ...
Class of 1966
Continued from A-7
*Further patrolling was done
from 11:53 a.m. until 12:52
p.m. at Hogue Meadows.
*So far this year, between
twenty and thirty 911-calls
have been received from the
1400 block of Lakeshore Drive.
Nothing is ever heard. (Haven’t
they read about the little boy
that cried wolf?)
Outside the Valley
*A dozen log listings.
Saturday, July 9
(Photo by Laura Mancuso, Illinois Valley News)
Nina Fincher Mickey, Alan Tucker, Bill Culbertson, Tom Butrick, Roger Gammel, Mike Mann,
Charlie Hoover, Ron Brood, principal, Ted Woodcock; Not pictured: Sandy Shaw, Ron Johnson
and Linda Brouillette Evans
PETITION...
Continued from A-5
Change in Relative Tax Burden
The measure will dramatically
change the percentage mix of personal
and corporate taxes in our state.
Currently, corporate taxes make
up only 4.7 percent of state taxes
and personal income taxes total
68.7 percent (other taxes make up
the difference). IP 28 would boost
corporate taxes to 23.90 percent and
drop personal income taxes to 55.1
percent.
LRO calculates that 1,051
corporations around the state will see
a higher tax bill if IP 28 passes. For
instance, if the measure had been in
effect in 2013, corporate tax payments
would have totaled $2.9 billion instead
of the $461 million companies actually
paid.
Impact on Economic Growth,
2017 through 2022
The state economy will grow at
a slightly slower rate. For example,
personal income will grow by 34.9
percent instead of 35.2. Employment
will grow at 5.7 percent instead of 6.5.
Population will grow at 5.4 percent
instead of 5.8.
The LRO report states, “It is
important to note that these results
do not indicate IP 28 will trigger a
decline in Oregon’s current economic
activity but rather it will modestly
dampen the state’s projected growth in
employment, income and population.”
Impact on Personal Income
Households at all income levels
will experience a very slight dip in
income, although less than 1 percent.
Households with yearly incomes of
less than $48,000 will experience a dip
of 0.9 percent, while households with
incomes greater than $206,000 will
experience a dip of 0.4 percent.
Opinions
Colene Martin, President/CEO of
the Grants Pass and Josephine County
Chamber of Commerce, is adamant in
her opposition to the measure, “This
is a very unfair tax. It’s a tax on gross
sales, so if you lose money at the end
of year they don’t care. It doesn’t take
into account profitability.”
Martin added that the weight of
the tax will fall on consumers.
Further, she said: “No other
corporation will touch Oregon if this
goes into effect. No large businesses
are going to look at Oregon to relocate.
You’re losing the potential of new
corporations and new jobs in the
private sector world.”
Martin added she has a hard time
trusting the state government to spend
the extra revenue wisely.
But an opposing view is
expressed by the Oregon Center for
Public Policy in a series of press
releases:
“Over the decades, corporate
income tax contributions in Oregon
have declined dramatically. As
a share of the Oregon economy,
corporate income tax contributions
have shrunk by more than half
since the late 1970s. In the 1973-75
budget periods, corporations paid
18.5 percent of all Oregon income
taxes. Today they pay just 6.7
percent, a decline of nearly two-
thirds.”
“The decline in corporate
income taxes has been no accident,
but rather the result of corporations
gaming the system … corporations
lobbying for and winning tax
subsidies and loopholes, pursuing
aggressive tax sheltering strategies
and utilizing new corporate forms
largely exempt from corporate
income taxes.”
“The decline of corporate
taxes has meant that working
Oregonians, many of whom are
already struggling to make ends
meet, must shoulder an ever-
increasing share of the load. This
trend cannot continue if Oregon
communities are to thrive.”
In a July 2016 press release
the center also disputes LRO’s
estimates of slower job growth
under the measure.
*An injured or diseased
skunk was in a driveway at
220 Schumacher Street at 9:25
a.m. The creature could lift its
head but was unable to move
its back legs. Due to rabies
concerns, the deceased stinker
was double-bagged and thrown
away. (Don’t get mad, get Glad
trash bags.)
*A live-in caretaker
wasn’t doing a very good job
for her elderly client in the
9300 block of Takilma Road
at 9:49 a.m., so he fired her.
She became aggressive when
he asked her to leave, stating,
“One of us is not going to
make it out of here.” She was
trespassed from the property,
and left in her Ford Focus with
all of her belongings.
*At 10:16 a.m., an
intoxicated transient wearing
a blue baseball cap and an
oversized brown jacket was
scaring people in the 200
block of N. Redwood Hwy.
Melissa Jayne Lowenstein, 49,
was detained at the Josephine
County Jail on a Grants Pass
Department of Public Safety
warrant for failure to appear
for interfering with police.
Now she is 86’d from Wright’s
World Emporium, next to
Subway.
*A traffic stop at 12:15
p.m. involving a gold-colored
Ford Taurus on Holland
Loop and Robinson Corner
Road resulted in the arrest of
a fugitive. Maxwell Duane
Wagaman, 39, was detained
on a Jackson County warrant
charging failure to report to
jail after a conditional release.
New charges were referred to
the DA for the misdemeanor
crime of driving while license
is revoked.
*An older couple in their
60s or 70s were shooting across
the roadway near Bolan Lake at
2:21 p.m. After target practice,
they drove off in a smaller red
pickup truck.
*The driver of a Ford
Explorer was warned for failure
to signal at 3:54 p.m. at Draper
Valley Road and Indian Creek
Road.
Outside the Valley
* Ten log items
Sunday, July 10
*Numerous 911-
hangup calls have originated
throughout the Valley from a
certain phone number, but the
call at 10:21 a.m. was just a
butt-dial.
*A ruffian was threatening
to harm people in front of a
business at 24394 Redwood
Hwy. at 11:45 a.m. OSP
handled a previous incident
with the weasel when a
homeowner held him at
gunpoint. This was the same
instigator that caused problems
at Kerby Mart when he bragged
of his plan to rob the store,
threatening to kill them if they
called the cops. Voice messages
were left for the parole officer.
*The area near Eight
Dollar Bridge was patrolled at
12:43 p.m.
*Last week a Jeep was
abandoned at 625 E. River
Street. This week a second
vehicle has been abandoned
just inside of the gate at the
same location at 1:32 p.m.
*A short, chunky woman
with blue face paint was yelling
at her kids somewhere in Selma
near Squaw Mountain at 1:52
p.m. Three eavesdroppers
did not like the way she was
threatening a child, and a
protective soul took the baby
away from She-who-hollers
until the situation defused.
*Two unoccupied vehicles
were located at the south end
of South Old Stage Road at
5:09 p.m. A light-blue colored
Honda Civic or Accord with
Calif. plates, and a primered-
gray Chevy S-10 pickup truck
will be tagged for towing if
they are still there on July 11.
Outside the Valley
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