Crazy Oregon News 🎙️🌲 Presented by Innovative Law Group (Think ILG) — estate planning for the state that’s the worst place to die. Oregon’s estate tax is ruthless, so don’t let Salem be your biggest heir. 🔗 https://thinkilg.com This week in “Only in Oregon”: 🐄🥩 “Make Oregon vegan” ballot push — PEACE (IP28) is closing in on the signatures needed to criminalize hunting, fishing, pest control, and raising livestock. Yes… farming/ranching could be a crime. They’re at 105,000 of 117,000 signatures. “But you can still eat insects.” Cool. 😐 💸 $300M tax hike move — Senate passes a bill to “decouple” from federal exemptions (HR1), raising state taxes by ~$311M/year (car loan interest write-offs, equipment write-offs, certain stock transactions). House is next. 🏗️ Affordable housing vs unions — a bill to tweak prevailing wage rules (to reduce project costs and build more housing/childcare) gets the union hammer… and leadership tells the sponsor: “not now, not ever.” Oregon doing Oregon things. ⛽🚲 Bike helmet bill… turned as tax bill — HB 4007 was about helmets. Now it’s amended to remove the requirement that local gas taxes must go to voters. Surprise! 🙃 💉🏫 Needle exchange near schools stays — SB 1573 gets pulled after a federal ruling says restricting needle exchanges can violate the ADA. So… clean needles within 2,000 feet of schools remains a thing. 📉 Oregon economy watch — business bankruptcies up 25% (4x faster than the national increase). Portland economist says the metro is in a recession: job losses, weak housing, high taxes, broad decline. 📊 Governor’s race poll — Kotek leads Dudley, Drazen, and Diehl (with ~20% undecided). Election season = maximum drama. 🏛️ Portland legal fund — City Council shifts $150K to pay deportation defense for 75 immigrants/refugees. 😷👮 “No masks” bills — proposals would require officers to show faces/ID (except undercover). Problem: Oregon has zero authority over federal officers… so this gets spicy fast. Rick… roll out the industrial-sized can of real. 🥫🔥
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