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Gov. John Kitzhaber's Driver Card bill speech at the Oregon state Capitol in Salem, May 1, 2013.
Anything we can do to reduce the flow of tax revenue to the government is good. Government has proven that it cannot manage taxpayer money responsibly, and has grown to overbloated, unsustainable proportions. It has grown like a cancer. The only way to restrict its growth is to cut its food supply - money confiscated from taxpayers.
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An estate tax is so wrong, why in the hell should after tax money be TAXED AGAIN???
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Hopefully people of significant means can find away around the estate tax
only people with immovable real estate would pay oregon estate tax
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his example of the nike stock doesnt work as i can take up residence in arizona and never pay the tax to oregon
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most people with cash just move than pay it
My kids will have to sell everything I own to pay for the estate taxes on all my property. For this reason I have put all my assets into an overseas corporation to prevent paying any taxes to the money grubbing government who will do nothing but waste it.
 @RalphCramden Nice QR there. I agree, he does.
 @Altazi Yea, I made it  up to get the word out. Most already know that and hopefully he will not get reelected.
 @Altazi It is pretty small and the iPhone will not read it that small. If anyone uses Safari they can enlarge the whole web page and it will work. Otherwise they can drag the image over the desktop and open it in another program that will enlarge it.
 @RalphCramdenI tried using my iPhone directly on your icon image, but the icon was too small and blurry. I saved the image and did a little fiddling - resizing and edge sharpening. Worked like a charm.
I watched this and Mannix has points about the estate tax.When one dies and estates are taxed, that is double taxation as that money had been taxed once before.As for the kicker, why should the corp kicker go to just schools ? why not public safety ? why not job creation here in Oregon ? The schools get a lot of money, mismanage it and it's never enough., It's like a bottomless pit for them.There seems to be no accountability/responsibility for monies and the school districts. There is a lot of waste there.