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Oregon Politicians Propose A Recreational Marijuana Sales Tax

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 05/21/2015 - 08:00

by Johnny Green

A little known fact about my home state, Oregon, is that we do not have a sales tax. This if fairly rare in America these days. I remember traveling to surrounding states with my family growing up, and being bewildered by seeing a price tag on a pack of baseball cards, but then having to pay extra once I got to the cash register. It was a very foreign concept to me growing up. Now that I’m older and pay a state income tax, which is basically the trade off for no sales tax, it makes more sense to me.

Sales taxes have always been a sticking point in Oregon. Voters do not like the idea of a sales tax, and don’t support it. I think that was why drafters of Oregon Measure 91 decided on a ‘harvest tax’ instead of a sales tax. Measure 91 proposed...

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