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Here comes income tax; move toward Oregon ‘model’?

Post by Brad Shannon / The Olympian on March 4, 2010 at 2:37 pm |
March 4, 2010 5:58 pm

Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown is moving forward with an income tax proposal as longer-term solution to the state’s financial problems. A hearing on her plan is at 4:30 p.m. today just as House and Senate Democrats seem to be hitting a log-jam on what mixture of tax increases are needed to fix the state’s $2.8 billion budget hole.

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