UPDATE: Taxes, the road not taken …
Remember the Oregon Legislature’s bold decision last month to boost taxes to help fill a multibillion-dollar budget gap? Well, as predicted, the $733 million in personal and corporate tax hikes didn’t go over well with critics, who assailed the very idea of raising taxes during a deep recession. On Tuesday, a group called Oregonians Against Job-Killing Taxes filed referenda against the two tax bills. They’re talking about spending $500k on the signature-gathering campaign. They need roughly 55,000 valid voter signatures by Sept. 25…