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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1945)
13 Special Election June 22, 1945 Bill Authorizing Tax Levy For STATE BUILDING. FUND THIS BILL APPROPRIATES $10,- 000,000 OF INCOME TAX REVENUES, TO BE COLLECTED $5,000,000 EACH YEAR FOR TWO YEARS, OF WHICH $4,000,000 WILL BE USED TO CON STRUCT BUILDINGS FOR HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND $6,000,000 FOR OTHER STATE IN STI TUTIONS. THIS MONEY WILL COME FROM INCOME TAX REVENUES WHICH WILL BE COLLECTED WHETHER OR NOT THIS BILL IS APPROVED BY THE PEOPLE. Under Oregon law, income tax revenues can he used for property tax reduction and for no other purpose. In order to make legal the use of income tax revenues for t h i s proposed building fund it is necessary to levy it as a property tax to be offset by income tax revenues, and a property tax, above the 6% limitation, can only be levied by a vote of the people. Members of the legislature gave this proposal almost unanimous approval. The money will be used to provide badly heeded buildings to house the wards and inmates of Oregon’s state institutions arid to correct à ten-year lag in the building prograrii of the Board of Higher Education. PLEASE REMEMBER .the money will come from income tax surpluses and will N O T be collected as a prop erty tax. It will be collected regardless of the outcome of this election- VOTE No. 300 "YES”. Dean H. Walker, State Senator, In dependence Giles L. French, State Representa tive, Moro Burt K. Snyder, State Representa tive, Lakeview Official Voters’ Pamphlet Oh June 22 the voters of the state have the chance to modernize t h e i r older institutions and improve all of them by voting favorably on the re ferred measürç to create a. $10,000,000 building fund. Those whose memories of state finances go back for two de cades realize what a rare opportunity now exists, for.-the money is reàlly in hand, in income tax receipts, needing only ratification by the people for this use through the device of authorizing a property tax levy. For two decades the state’s poverty when it came to capital improvements has been chronic. Luckily PWA came along and helped out on the capitol group and op other buildings. Now we have the opportun ity to improve our state plant. It should not be lost, a Charles A. Sprague State employees are concerned in the bill to appropriate income tax revenues to the State Building Fund for two reasons. First, they are through their employment acquainted with the ur gent need for a state building pro gram and realize | that although build ing has been postponed for several years it can not be much longer de layed. Second, they recognize that state employee welfare in general and the financing of the Public Employees Re tirement Fund in particular will be greatly facilitated if the State Building Program is financed by i n c o m e tax surpluses as proposed by this bill. I. A. DeFrance
