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Right to Know Before You
Go Act, which would provide
new tools for comparing
colleges and universities on
measures such as total cost,
likelihood of graduating and
potential earnings.
On the wildfi re front,
Wyden and Sen. Mike
Crapo
(R-Idaho)
have
introduced the Wildfi re
Disaster Funding Act that
would end borrowing from
fi re prevention funds to
fi ght ongoing blazes and
leaving prevention efforts
underfunded.
On healthcare, Wyden and
Sen. Orrin Hatch introduced
the Keeping Kids Insurance
Dependable and Secure Act
that would extend funding
for the Children’s Health
Insurance Program (CHIP)
for fi ve years. CHIP coverage
provides specifi c funding for
functional family therapy
that has been proven to cut
re-arrests in half and multi-
systemic therapy, which has
been shown to cut violent
felony arrests by 75 percent.
About 70 area residents
turned out for the town hall
held at McNary High School,
many of them from Keizer.
In an effort to cover as much
of the meeting as possible,
Keizertimes is presenting
Wyden’s mostly unedited
answers on numerous topics
he talked about.
On the rising costs of
college education:
“The fi rst thing to do
is not make things worse
for working families. The
House republican tax bill
is hard on working families
and students. If you get out
of school with debt, you
can deduct the interest you
pay on that debt. Under the
new proposal, you would
no longer be able to deduct.
If you are a multinational
corporation shipping jobs
overseas and you rack up
some debt doing that, you
get a write-off. There have
been a lot of people who
have been told they are going
to get manna from Heaven.
The No. 1 example used this
week was that a family that
ON THE ESCALATING COST OF HOUSING
IN OREGON AND OTHER AREAS:
“At the federal level, the government can do
something about the supply. I and Sen. Maria Cantwell
(D-Wash.) and Sen. Hatch have proposed expanding
the low-income housing tax credit. You get more
units, you reduce the pressure on costs and it helps
you get more price stability. It’s being supported by
tenant groups and developer-type people.
I think there are a lot of other pieces to the puzzle. I’m
looking at ways to help renters who have historically
been left out of the puzzle and looking at livability
issues. It seems to me that the federal government
has these dollars for low-income housing so let’s
give a preference to places that put the priority on
putting all the pieces together: schools, transportation
and parks and amenities and everything else. We’re
looking at the tax bill and ways to squeeze more
livability and supply and quality of life out of this.”
makes $59,000 would get
1,100 back. On a perfect day,
that couple might get a little
sliver, but if they have medical
expenses or student expenses
or they get hit by a wildfi re,
they are going into a hole.
For older people who might
rack up big medical bills,
they will lose their medical
deductions. There’s going to
be an effort to move this bill
very fast and as the ranking
democrat, I’m not going to
stand by and let Grinch steal
the middle class Christmas.
I’m going to spend a whole
lot of time between now and
the end of the year trying to
hold off a badly-fl awed tax
bill which basically gives the
vast majority of the money
to folks at the top and sticks
it to middle class people.”
On bringing jobs back
to America:
“We have to get rid of
tax deferral. There’s about
$2.3 to $3.1 trillion parked
overseas because of fl awed
tax policies. It’s an enormous
sum and the reason for it
is that you can park it over
there and not pay any taxes.
I would like a policy to
repatriate that money and a
signifi cant portion of it to go
toward transportation. Unless
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