Send An Email: Stop the Tax Hikes
Today we would like to encourage you to send Oregon’s Governor an email asking him not to increase taxes. We have a prewritten letter for you to send, or if you’d like, you can write your own. Here’s what the base letter looks like:
Governor Kulongoski’s new gas tax increase, along with other hikes in vehicle titling fees, and annual registration fees, are not the way out of this economic crisis. It’s hard to think of a time when spending money and taxing people more helped anyone in an economic crisis. This kind of idea hasn’t worked at the federal level, and it won’t work in Oregon.
The Governor argues that using this money on infrastructure improvements like building roads, bridges, and public transit is “good for the economy and our citizens by putting people back to work.” However, credible economists agree that real growth comes when you have an environment that encourages business and innovation, not high tax burdens and cumbersome regulations.
Rather than tax Oregonians who are already suffering under sky-high energy costs, Governor Kulongoski should step out of the way and make it easier for business and industry to come to Oregon, bringing jobs with them.
New energy taxes are unacceptable. Now is the time to leave money in families’ pockets. If the Governor really wants to “get Oregon out of this economic crisis” he should get government out of the way of new energy sources and technologies that would bring lower costs and jobs to Oregon, not raise taxes.
If you support keeping taxes low and letting Oregon recover from this economic downturn, email the Governor by clicking here.
