I think increasing the payroll tax is a mistake. People who don’t own a car should actually be rewarded because they pollute far less, they don’t disable workers, they don’t require traffic police, they don’t emit CO2…
I would replace the payroll tax with a weight tax on huge SUVs.
A lot of the payroll transit tax goes to public transit funding. Source: Work in Oregon public transit, we are looking layoffs if this doesn’t pass. That said… Yup… Anything but taxing the rich.