Oregon has the LOWEST estate tax exemption - or put another way - the HIGHEST estate tax - in the entire country. Even without the terrible estate tax, Oregon rates as the worst state fortaxes in the US exceeded only by New Jersey and New York.
In 2025, the Oregon legislature claimed it was facing shortfalls as pandemic-era subsidies ended and federal programs were reduced including backfilling many programs for illegal aliens with state tax funds.
In 2025, when the legislature rolled out their wish list of new bills, there was no recognition of funding problems from Democrat politicians, just a boatload of new, costly social justice programs. It’s as if working Oregonians are only here for providing funding for the ideological agendas of the dominant political party. Republicans fought back with sensible cost-cutting measures that never saw the light of day. Ending the Death Tax was one of them, but anything that limits funding for it went nowhere.
Visit the End the Death Tax website below, and download the petition to sign. Better yet…Send the link to as many people you can. Also print copies along with the text of the measure and deliver it to neighbors and co-workers along with pre-addressed envelopes. The online petition needs to be printed, signed and then mailed in - one signature per page. (Oregon registered voters only.) Print a lot of them and have them ready to hand out along with the website URL. PASS IT ON!
Central Oregon Daily June 28, 2025
Oregon Legislature wraps for 2025 after 11th-hour strife, historic funding shortfall
Lawmakers introduced more than 3,400 bills — the highest number in at least two decades — during the session, prompting an ultimately unsuccessful effort led by Democrats to pass a law limiting the number of bills each legislator could introduce.
The heightened tension among lawmakers Friday underscored the uphill battle they’ve faced this year in both chambers to pass ambitious policies, such as unemployment benefits for all striking workers, reforms of civil commitment laws and funding for more homeless shelters, all with limited resources and against the backdrop of rocky federal politics.
After several years of higher-than-expected revenues and boosts from federal COVID-relief funds that have since expired, lawmakers had less money to spend this year.
After strengthening the state’s sanctuary state laws and protections for abortion and gender-affirming care in recent years, there wasn’t much left to address.
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