The candidates should put themselves in Kitzhaber's shoes and tell the voters what cuts they would recommend and what
revenue enhancements, if any, they would suggest.
Finally, there may be a private management services firm that would front-end the start up of an IGWW in return for sharing in future
revenue enhancements.
Revenue Enhancements. The statement that the "art of taxation is the art of plucking the goose so as to get the largest possible amount of feathers with the least possible squealing," has been attributed to the French Statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who served as Louis the XIV's finance minister.
[GRAPH OMITTED] Exhibit 3 Illusory Budgeting and Financial Reporting Practices Category Definition Property Tax The use of non-rate-restricted Manipulations (i.e., unlimited) property tax levies and the accompanying accounting fund for expenditures more typically paid for by a rate-restricted levy and related accounting fund, Revenue Enhancements A resource transfer from some (other) accounting fund to the government's general fund, as a means of increasing revenues available for financing general government purposes and appropriation.
The initial GPG approach would be to analyze the current position of the property, explore capital alternatives and anticipated returns on investment, design an operating expense savings program and probe the more subjective area of possible
revenue enhancements. They can also offer information on the latest real estate tax developments.