March 07 2021
Paul Nys: 'In my mind, this is a contract with the state ... To unilaterally impose more taxes is unacceptable.'
Responding to the guest editorial, "It's time to reconsider Oregon's timber severance tax" by Regan Fisher:
First, the Portland resident who advocated taxing rural Oregonians an additional severance tax must subscribe to the old adage that taxes on someone else is better.
This family pays property taxes, a harvest tax, a severance tax, and of course, federal and state income taxes. In the pending legislative proposals (bills), there is not a single incentive for forestland owners to offset additional and grievously unfair increasd taxes.