Why a Sales Tax in Oregon?

To capture Government income from those who presently pay little or no income tax.

Who is that you ask?

Probably the majority of residents within the State.

Who is that you ask?

All those in the Sub-culture and Sub-economy, including the huge number who are recent Immigrants (legal and otherwise) and those here on student visas and never left.

Note: Please recall that much of our pay-roll industry has left the State if not the country.

Who is that you ask?

To start off with huge number of Pot Producers including the green basement growers and forest land farmers. Dollar wise, government agencies have the Pot industry in Oregon as being only second to Intel's output, and that is just a guess. Grass farmers R Us! Think of the income that could be generated from their buying generators, fertilizer and grow lights alone.

Then we have all the many "K" families who own and run all the mini-marts and dry cleaners. Folks who play the Same-Name-Game to the max and have taken skimming taxes to a new level of art form. You know you are safe from the tax people when your Church has a bank and everybody has bad memories.

Note: Don't look for any Federally Required Employee posters hanging on their office walls as its all in the extended family.

Have you rented a motel room from a Patel lately? But then, perhaps that room was vacant that night and you only thought you stayed there.

Not to forget Hamad, Jamil, Hamid, Abdullah, Sami and all their cousins who own and operate the many quick-gas stops. Hey, the Palestinians pay big bucks for the rockets they launch into Israel and where better to laundry all their underground profits needed than through a high-cash flow quick-stop gas station?

Ooop's, I almost forgot about all of our new friends coming here from South of the border who bring us Millions of dollars in Meth Biz every day. The best we see from those folks is some measly gas tax dollars and bail bond forfeitures.

Note: These fools have yet to catch on to the Same-Name-Game as the K's have perfected. Think of what the Cops would do if they all became members of the Gomez-Gomez family?

But then we should include all the many thousands of their cousins who don't Meth Trade and only steal jobs from US citizens, rob or work for Cold Cash as in replacing roofs and house painting in suburbia. Nothing else the State will see some money from the materials purchased.

Dang, did I forget about the Stale Beer Redemption scams the breweries run that allows bars and taverns to keep two tills (one for the IRS and the other for pocket cash) as their is no
records of any purchases to justify. Darn fool delivery drivers leaving the retailers with more merchandise than they can sell and then it must be hauled back to the brewery and flushed down the sewer. Yea sure! Pull dates are pull dates, ya know!

So what if our State border cities that depend on biz from CA, ID and WA take dumps and blow away. The cash coming to Salem from the Sub World economy for all the PERS partners and School Districts to divide and share, is much more important to those who really run Oregon.

I would prefer we deny them their Sales Tax and thus choke the income flow to State government as that is our only remaining tool in controlling their explosive growth and power.