A bill was introduced to the Oregon Legislature: HB2877 that would place a tax of $1000 every 5 years on vehicles 20 years and older.
This impacts a ton of people: The poor, classic car owners etc...
Big piece of crap legislation

https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/201...877/Introduced

contact link:
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/ho...ativesAll.aspx

https://legiscan.com/OR/text/HB2877/2017

SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2017 Act is added to and made a part of the Oregon Vehicle
Code.
SECTION 2. (1) An impact tax is hereby imposed on motor vehicles as provided in this
section. A person shall pay the tax if the person owns a motor vehicle registered in this state
and the model year of the motor vehicle is 20 years old or older on January 1 of the current
year. The tax shall be collected by the Department of Transportation every five years on or
before January 31 of the year in which the tax is due.
(2) The amount of the tax is $1,000.
(3) The department for good cause may extend for up to 30 days the time for making any
payment under this section. The extension may be granted at any time if a written request
is filed with the department before January 31 of the year in which the tax is due.
(4) Interest shall be added at the rate of five-sixths of one percent per month or fraction
thereof for each month, or fraction of a month, from the time the payment was originally
required to be filed, not including any extensions, to the time of payment.
(5) At any time a registered owner fails to pay the impact tax, the department may enforce
collection by the issuance of a distraint warrant for the collection of the delinquent
amount and all penalties, interest and collection charges accrued thereon. The warrant shall
be issued, recorded and proceeded upon in the same manner and shall have the same force
and effect as is prescribed with respect to warrants for the collection of delinquent income
taxes.
(6) The registered owner shall pay the tax to the department in the form and manner
prescribed by the department.
(7) The department may adopt rules to carry out the provisions of this section, including
rules setting forth circumstances or conditions under which a penalty may be assessed for
failure to pay all or a portion of the tax.

Apparently it was already defeated (see update). That was fast. https://jalopnik.com/proposed-oregon...ear-1792227249

Doesn't surprise me, all it'd do is penalize low-income/middle class vehicle owners for no definitive reason.

Though the article I read showed any vehicle older than 10yrs except for "classic/antique" vehicles.

That's nothing.
The crap hole left wing state I live in has a rain tax and tried to implement a chicken tax.

I think the rain tax has been repealed:


Governor Larry Hogan - Official Website for the Governor of Maryland

A lot of us fisherman, think the chicken tax is a good idea. it is only 0.05 cents per chicken and it is used to combat the phosphorus run off from into the Chesapeake Bay. Sort of like the plastic bag tax.
The bay is the largest fish breeding ground and nursery in the world and it is being choked out by silt and alge blooms. Blooms that are out of control from all of the phosphorus being dumped into the bay.
I'm not saying chicken farms are totally responsible by themselves, but they contribute up to 37% of the run off. This "chicken tax" helps combat that.

A lot of fisherman may support it, but ALL the chicken farmers don't, and chicken farming is the biggest industry on the eastern shore.
I'm not against controlling pollution of the bay, but it's just another example of how anti-business the crap hole state is. The brain dead liberals in Annapolis haven driven business after business out of this state creating huge job losses. Yet they still want us to support all the illegals they lure to this state.
And yeah for Hogan, one more step to undo the damage done under the Martin O'Taxme regime.

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lol in the UK road tax used to be free for vehicles over 25 years, as an attempt to preserve classic vehicles.

That went though when the wrong government was voted in, obviously.