Experts Debunk Claim That Tax Measures Would Cost Jobs

Salem-News: The central argument by opponents of Measures 66 and 67, that the measures will cause Oregon to lose jobs, is "without merit," according to experts at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. They said the claim rests on "misleading analysis" and "fatally flawed assumptions."

The Washington, D.C.-based center picked apart the work of Oregon economists Randall Pozdena and William Conerly, who have argued that raising taxes on high-income Oregonians and corporations would cause the state to lose tens of thousands of jobs. Opponents of Measures 66 and 67 -- funded by banks, big corporations and rich individuals -- have added together the upper limits of Pozdena's and Conerly's estimates and trumpeted the total as the centerpiece of their campaign.

"The Tax Policy Center's analysis shows that the campaign against Measures 66 and 67 is relying on phony job numbers shoddily cooked up by hired-gun economists," said Chuck Sheketoff, executive director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy. "No matter how many times they are repeated, the job-loss claims aren't worth the paper they are printed on."

OCPP requested the analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. The center is staffed by nationally recognized experts in tax, budget and social policy who have served at the highest levels of government.

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