Gov Kulongoski Unveils Plans To Pay For Trasportation Ideas
Salem, OR November 10, 2008 1:27 p.m.
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downloadGovernor Ted Kulongoski unveiled his plan Monday, to both stimulate Oregon’s economy and improve its transportation infrastructure. As Kristian Foden-Vencil reports, it involves a 2-cent per gallon hike in the gas tax.
The governor’s plan would also introduce a new ‘first time title fee,’ for when you buy a new car; it would double the current ‘title fee;’ and increase the registration fee from $27 dollars a year to $81 dollars.
Those increases would raise about $500 million a year and will fund more than six thousand new transportation jobs. Kulongoski says that will both stimulate the economy and dig the state out of recession.
Kulongoski: “I think this is the way to get Oregon out of this crisis, put the people to work, that’s what it’s all about.”
Democrats have the super majority necessary to push a tax increase through Salem. But the governor says he wants a vigorous debate with his Republican colleagues.
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