There saying that "S" word again!

The Registerguard

...revenue sources include a sales tax,...


Proposals on table for public safety

A four-point plan to put Lane County's public safety programs back on their feet will cost about $34 million annually, according to a preliminary budget estimate that will be discussed tonight by the county's Public Safety Task Force.

Public safety agency heads and elected city and county officials also will begin tonight to devise a way to finance their plan, with the goal of putting a proposal on the November 2006 ballot. Possible revenue sources include a sales tax, personal or corporate income taxes, a restaurant tax, amusement and entertainment taxes or the property tax.

The task force plan aims to attack methamphetamine use and property crimes; I thought the governor was doing that by making cold and flu medications a prescription only item to expand drug, alcohol and mental health treatment; to reduce family violence; and to prevent future crime.

Other major features of the plan include hiring 23 sheriff's deputies for rural patrols and resident-deputy programs in rural areas; adding four sheriff's detectives to investigate property crimes; adding 13 employees to the district attorney's office for increased drug and identity theft prosecution; covering the $2 million cost for operating a 100-bed jail in Springfield; and adding two dozen parole and probation officers to focus on drug crimes, domestic violence and sex offender supervision.

methamphetamine has become the popular issue right now, and of course they are drooling because it is an excuse to ask for more money.

and how many times have we told them that we do not want a sales tax? I have lost count. I think anybody that even "thinks" the word sales-tax should be fired.