Moved from Eugene to SE Idaho 11 years ago.
Perhaps I will join you ACPCHUCK. I'm now becoming disillusioned with Oregon, and more specifically, the Eugene/Springfield area.
You would not believe all of the new taxes being proposed here. The Govenor is backing a bill to put a surcharge tax on all auto insurance policies, to help fund the state police and put more officers on the highway. And the state legislature is considering increasing the gas tax significantly, or even monitoring driver's mileage, and then charging a tax per mile you drive when you come in to fill up your gas. They actually are running a trial of this program up in Portland right now with volunteers. The state is worried that higher mileage cars will reduce taxes in the future, as people will be using less gasoline.
Locally, Lane County is also working on passing a County income tax of 2 percent this coming May to get more money for law enforcement and the courts. Both Springfield and Eugene each passed two bond measures each last November that will increase our property taxes.
The city council of Eugene is holding hearings this month on a transportation fee to be charged each homeowner and business to pay for city road maintenance. Some city councillors are so pro riding bicycles, and so much against driving cars, that they have refused to fund maintaining the streets for years, and a huge $100 million backlog of street repairs now exists in Eugene! The roads are literally falling apart.
And on top of that, the Eugene council has another hearing set to come up this month on implementing a City income tax, to help pay for schools.
So just think, if you had stayed here in Eugene, you could soon be paying income taxes to the state, county, and city, as well as all of these other creative new taxes.
So I may not last the year here. But the question is, where is there a decent place to live with a good economy for jobs, that is also gun friendly, with good hunting opportunities??
Does such a paradise exist??
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