Give kicker money to schools, Oregon business leaders suggest

Oregon’s top business leaders are weighing in on one of the state’s touchiest tax issues: recommending that the state divert at least some of the popular kicker tax rebates into a rainy day fund to help protect schools from budget cuts.

Leaders of several of the state’s most influential companies included the proposal to curtail the tax rebates in a series of recommendations they will make today at the annual Oregon Leadership Summit in Portland.

by Jeff Mapes, The Oregonian

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