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Article: Public safety costs money. WHO PAYS FOR IT?(Government)(Lane County is proposing a local income tax. How you feel about it may depend on what you earn.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2006
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Byline: Matt Cooper The Register-Guard
If voters approve Lane County's first-ever income tax for public safety in November, much of the money will come from wealthy people such as Tim Laue.
An owner and officer with Eugene-based Essex General Construction, Laue and his wife have a combined income that places them among the top 9 percent of wage earners in Lane County.
That top group - though small in number compared with the rest of local taxpayers - contributed close to half of all the money generated by Lane County taxpayers in 2004 for the state income tax, according to state data.
Just as the state income tax relies heavily on the ...