Krisjn's comments:

on Ballot Measure 5 Turns 20

Specifically, the Salem study we conducted is here:

www.progress.org/geonomy/Highlights.

One way to correct the M5/50 distortions is to use a cap on revenue growth pegged to an index such as personal income growth, as has been proposed in WA. This would entail use of fair market values under responsible, equitable terms instead of relying on the unfair assessed values.

posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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on Ballot Measure 5 Turns 20

In our '99 study of Salem's property tax effects under M5/50, we found inequities in the shift of tax burden from higher value properties to lower value ones. This distortion has not been corrected since passage of M50.

The study is available at www.progress.org/geonomy.

posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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on Solar Power

When it comes to the track record of Germany's now wildly successful feed-in tarrif model, one fact leaps out:  ratepayers pay, after a decade of involvement, about the cost of a latte per month more than they would without the program. Not bad for creating over 250k jobs and being the seat of the largest solar industry on the planet!

posted 1 year, 10 months ago
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on The Big Look

Mr. Whitman says we still need to be concerned about sprawl. Yet the Big Yawn TF won't consider a serious discussion about how our property tax system directly competes with our "smart" land use system and actually screams sprawl. Just look around! They claim they're interested in market-based tools, but they don't want to discuss how other states have restructured our speculation-laced property tax to work with a rural-lands protecting land use system.

posted 3 years, 9 months ago
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