#regressive-taxation — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/07/portland-oregon-tina-kotek-transportation-bill-politics/
(Tina should find a way to not use #regressivetaxation; i.e., stiffing the little guy with fees)
…with an #ODOT $242M gap, #Kotek now favors a “redirect, repeal and rebuild” approach.
“redirect”: free up money within ODOT budget that could instead go toward basic road maintenance.
“rebuild”: Come back to the Legislature in 2027 with a more comprehensive plan for funding ODOT…
“repeal”: ask Dems to scrap the bill she just muscled through…
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And so the choice is:
Corporations pay ZERO.
Private road users, aka "the little guys", are footing the whole bill in the most aggressively #regressivetaxation possible.
"… #payrolltax increase would cost a worker who earns…$68,283 about $68 per year, and drivers of passenger cars would pay $84 more… #vehicleregistrationfees… #gastax…depending on how many miles people drive and how fuel-efficient their cars are."
Crap work Tina.
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and, yes, HB 3362 **was** egregiously regressive.
— a shitty bill, that should have included ALL vehicles, so that corporate road-ruiners would cover their dues.
— and, what they don't say is that funding it through fees and registration, with a tiny smattering of #gastax, is **already** steeply #regressivetaxation
— and that it doesn't even remotely cover total cost to the #environment
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@barney Well said. I wish a journalist would ask TFG to walk them through buying a $35K car, paying state and local taxes and then an extra $3,500 in tariffs.
How exactly would that benefit someone buying a car? Wouldn't this be instant 10% inflation on goods many consumers buy?
If this is meant to replace taxation of income, it would be a regressive tax on the poor as more of their income goes toward consumables than the wealthy.
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They are merely doing the ignoble work of wealth redistribution bas Ganga is ulti behenging
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RT @seemay
Falling corporate taxes - “In 2018-19, the total corporate tax or the income tax paid by corporates had stood at Rs 6.64 lakh crore. This fell to Rs 5.57 lakh crore in 2019-20. It fell further to Rs 4.57 lakh crore in 2020-21.” #RegressiveTaxation https://twitter.com/seemay/status/1430032895146479616
https://twitter.com/seemay/status/1430033541341933569