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Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Oregon man to plead guilty to
planting fake bomb on plane
Senator proposes cuts to personal
income taxes, new tax on corporations
PORTLAND (AP) —
A United States citizen
accused of falsely reporting
there was a bomb a Dutch
airliner is scheduled to
plead guilty.
Police arrested Sean
Michael Davies, 22, of
Warrenton, Oregon, last year
on charges he constructed
a fake bomb, then placed
it in the restroom during a
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Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. He
alerted the crew about the
device, and that caused the
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diverted to Cairo, Egypt.
Prosecutors said Davies’
motive was to look like a
hero.
The Warrenton, Oregon,
man pleaded not guilty last
year and a trial was sched-
uled to start Tuesday in
Portland. Instead, a change
of plea hearing was sched-
uled for Monday afternoon.
Federal
prosecutor
Charles Gorder said he
expects Davies to plead
guilty to conveying false
information concerning a
By HILLARY BORRUD
and PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A lawmaker from
Beaverton Monday introduced a proposal
to cut income taxes for many low- and
middle-income Oregonians and levy a
new tax on corporations.
Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton,
pitched the concept as an alternative to
a corporate tax measure proposed for the
November ballot by the union-backed
group Our Oregon. Hass and Democratic
leaders in the Oregon Senate would like
to avoid a bitter and expensive political
battle between business and labor groups,
which many people expect if the Our
Oregon measure goes to voters.
Hass’ package would eliminate the
state’s corporate income tax and instead
impose a 0.39 percent tax on all corpora-
tions’ sales in Oregon, a model that Ohio
adopted in 2006. As a result, the tax base
is much larger and the rate is lower than
in the Our Oregon initiative, which would
impose an additional 2.5 percent tax on
the Oregon sales of certain corporations
in excess of $25 million.
His bill has support from Senate Demo-
crat leadership, but faces a major hurdle
in the Oregon House where Democratic
leaders have so far refused to consider an
alternative corporate tax measure. Any tax
legislation must originate in the House.
Senate Majority Leader Ginny
Burdick, D-Portland, said resistance
from business and labor groups to any
alternative has also dulled the prospects
for legislation.
“There just has not been the kind of
interest that you need to make a move
like this and have it succeed,” Burdick
said. “It just does not exist right now.”
Senate Democrats on Monday listed
tax reform as one of their priorities for the
2016 session, even though they acknowl-
edged the issues would likely receive
nothing more than discussion. In addition
to upping corporate taxes, Senate Demo-
crats said they want to look at other ways
to relieve the state’s inordinate reliance
on income taxes by reforming “kicker”
refunds and the property tax system.
“When people ask me personally
what is the one thing we could do to help
Oregon, I say completely revamp our
tax system,” said Senate Majority Whip
Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Bea-
verton. “We see the crises we have every
time we have a recession because we are
so dependent on our personal income tax
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Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton, Monday pitched the concept as an alterna-
tive to a corporate tax measure proposed for the November ballot by the
union-backed group Our Oregon.
so we need to think about that.”
Hass said the Legislature could either
pass its own corporate tax plan, or refer a
measure to voters in November.
“While the rhetoric continues to esca-
late, a compromise is now sitting here on
the shelf,” Hass said. “It’s transparent,
easy to understand and substantiated
by credible economists. The legislature
could pass this plan today.”
But Hass said lawmakers could hold a
special session to pass a tax bill, just as it
did in 2012 to help Nike. “At stake then
was 500 jobs,” Hass said.
Hass’ proposal could lead to the
creation of 4,454 new jobs, with 2,903 in
the public sector and 1,551 in the private
sector, according analysis by legislative
economists. Most of the public jobs
would be teachers.
A tax on corporate sales, also known
as gross receipts, is a tax on consumption
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Warner described as “slightly regres-
sive.” Hass attempted to offset some of
the impact by including income tax cuts
for lower and middle-income workers.
On average, Hass’ proposal would
result in a tax cut for households with
disposable annual incomes of up to
$58,000, He said. It would double
Oregon’s standard deduction for personal
income taxes and increase the earned
income tax credit to 18 percent of the
federal earned income tax credit.
Economists in the Legislative
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proposal, and they estimated it would
raise an additional $1 billion annually.
Half the revenue would pay for education,
and the remainder would pay for personal
income tax cuts and the elimination of the
corporate income tax.
State economists project $500 million
in taxes for K-12 and higher education in
the 2017 through 2019 budget cycle and
they found the tax would likely generate
more in the future, with $550 million
for education in the 2019 through 2021
budget cycle.
“We would expect that the (corporate
tax revenue) would grow,” Warner said.
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recently analyzed a nearly identical
corporate sales tax scenario, and found it
would cause a net loss of 9,000 jobs.
Legislative economists have estimated
Our Oregon’s corporate tax measure
might generate $2.65 billion annually
for the state, but are still working on an
analysis of the economic impacts of the
tax, for example on employment and
consumer prices. Our Oregon conducted
analysis of the economic impacts of the
proposal, but the group has declined to
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“We see the crises we have every time we have a
recession because we are so dependent on our
personal income tax so we need to think about that.”
— Senate Majority Whip Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward,
D-Beaverton
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The federal agency that
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says the outbreak of E. coli
illness linked to Chipotle
restaurants that sickened
60 people appears to be
over.
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Control and Prevention
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1.
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unknown. Chipotle execu-
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device which could destroy
or damage an aircraft.
Another charge will be
dropped in the plea agree-
ment.
Davies’ attorney, federal
public defender Ruben
Iniguez, did not return a
phone message seeking
comment.
Gorder said the fake
bomb was comprised of
things one could bring onto
a plane or obtain during
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bottle, earphones, an iPhone
charger cord and e-cigarette
battery.
“A bunch of different
things that make it kind of
look like a bomb,” Gorder
said.
Gorder declined to
talk about the recommend
sentence that comes with
the plea deal, saying he
must wait for the hearing.
U.S. Magistrate John
V. Acosta allowed Davies
to remain out of jail as the
case went through the court
system. Davies had to relin-
quish his passport and stay
in Oregon.
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