A creepy example of state governments itching to steal your money (Oregon)

American Thinker ^ | 02/06/2025 | John Woods

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We have so many different movies and TV shows that illustrate how the Mafia and others ran their protection racket: the Godfather series, The Sopranos, and The Equalizer, to name a few. T he protection racket usually said, “It would be a shame if your business caught fire due to greasy kitchen pipes.”

Now let me provide some information about the law in Oregon called the “Tax Kicker.”

Bing explains, “The Oregon surplus credit, known as the ‘kicker,’ is a unique way for the state government to return some of your taxes when revenues are more than predicted.  The kicker comes from a 1980 ballot measure that created personal and corporate tax kickers.  It is triggered when the state’s revenue for a two-year budget is 2% higher than forecasted.  The amount paid to any given taxpayer is based on their payment from the previous year.”

In Oregon, we have just seen a new variation of this protection scam in our state government’s current legislative session.  State senator Jeff Golden, a Democrat from Jackson County, chairman of the 2025 Oregon Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfires, has proposed a new fire protection scheme.  If we, the citizens give the state our tax kicker refund, they will guarantee there will never be more wildfires in Oregon.

Every year since we moved to Oregon in May of 2011, we have seen Democrats continuously try to steal the tax kicker from Oregon taxpayers to fund their environmental agenda, road projects, windmills, and other liberal wants and desires.

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As an Oregonian, my response to the latest attempt to steal my money is: “DROP DEAD AND GO TO HELL, YOU ROTTEN COMMIE BASTARDS!!!”

Is that clear enough?

[little jeremiah]

AND when elections are HONEST - in person, voter ID, paper ballots, hand counted with observors from both parties - Oregon will be very, very different. Has to happen.

There is one cause for the hellacious wildfires: BLM REFUSES to clean the slash, debris, dead trees etc from national forests or do selective controlled burns. That is the ONLY reason. I’ve lived a 1/4 mile from BLM on two sides and had to evacuate once, and at level 2 at least three times (or more!). Hub was a volunteer firefighter for 8 years and worked several seasons on wildfires in OR, WA and CA.

The Demsheviks running Oregon are enemies.