Sales tax? No, that's not what Kitzhaber said.

TABarnhart.net:

Mapes also provided the quotes, so it’s even more disturbing that he cannot actually hear what Kitzhaber said. I attended the debate, so I was in the same room as Mapes and heard exactly what he heard; and what Kitzhaber said was not, Let’s talk about a sales tax, but, We have to talk about the nature of how the state gets money. A sales tax, he said, is one option — duh. That’s neither controversial nor newsworthy — and yet Mapes, and the Oregonian, felt it was worthy of the headline for the debate. ...

Kitzhaber said no such thing.

Throughout the debate, Kitzhaber took question after question and shifted the focus from the narrow aspect of the questioner to a broad perspective. In the case of a sales tax, he spoke of Oregon’s badly imbalanced tax structure, relying almost exclusively on personal and corporate income taxes. His answer to the question was not to suggest revisiting the sales tax but to engage Oregonians in a dialogue about where the state’s money comes from — two completely separate things.

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