Citizens Group Announces Campaign to Oppose Unfair Tax Burden on Eugene Working Families

Citizens for Jobs and Schools have announced an effort and fight to organize a united campaign to oppose the proposal by the Eugene City Council to raise income taxes on working families in order to boost the budgets of Eugene schools

Reasons not to support the Income Tax:

1.  With record high unemployment and struggling local economy, this is not the time to be asking middle class working families to pay an additional hundreds of dollars in new taxes.

2.  If the tax passes, there’s no guarantee the funds will help kids. It’s probable the funds will be used for ballooning and unsustainable benefits and retirement plans for state employees.

3.  School administrators and staff should contribute a small portion of their salaries to their benefit packages, creating no need to lay off teachers and add furlough days to save funds.

Please see the tax increase scale below to learn more about how the tax will negatively impact nearly every Eugene resident. A family of five earning a combined income annual income of $70,000 will pay an extra $224 for their tax bill, more than enough for a week’s groceries for the family.

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