Anti-Real Estate Tax Campaign Is Making Stuff Up

Willamette Week:

Proponents of Measure 79, which would amend the Oregon constitution to ban real estate transfer taxes, already bear the burden of trying to convince voters to solve a problem that does not exist. But in doing so they're making statements that at best are misleading, and, at worst, are flat-out lies.

As WW reported earlier, Measure 79 is a solution in search of a problem: State law already prohibits the imposition of a tax on real estate transfers, and it has done so since 1989.

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