instead of reducing spending, the Democrat Committee Chair Sen. Chris Gorsek of Oregon, instead, is creating new taxes and intends to tax tires, to pay for Amtrak expansion, not having a damn clue that Amtrak doesn't appeal to the people using cars... ironic that he's not taxing train riders to pave potholes!

Legislators propose two changes to taxes, a tire tax and making it easier to pass a gas tax

This would likely cause a new set of tires, which most cars need every 30,000 miles, to cost another 50-70 dollars

The tire tax would be an excise tax of 4% on the retail price of new tires or newly refurbished tires. The money collected would not go to roads. It would go to rail transit or other public transportation, to fight tire pollution and to protect wildlife from being killed by traffic.

House Bill 3362 aims to support mitigation efforts to protect fish and wildlife from the impacts of vehicle crashes and tire pollutants. 

Democrat Committee Chair Sen. Chris Gorsek is sponsoring the bill.  "We've been thinking for a long time about the impact vehicles have in general on things like salmon and wildlife crossings," Gorsek said. "We're trying to think a little bigger picture than just the highways and freeways." 

It also aims to support the expansion of Amtrak Cascades rail service. It would do so by raking in an estimated $25 million a year in Oregon tax revenue garnered through a 4% excise tax on tires.

"We want to give them options other than simply driving a car," Gorsek said.

A quarter of the tax revenue would fund storm water treatment technology to remove toxic tire pollutants that threaten Coho salmon. Another quarter of the funding would pay for wildlife crossing infrastructure on highways.(Not really, consider how much ANY overpass costs to build, now realize a wide wildlife crossing is much wider and more expensive) 

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-lawmakers-consider-tire-tax/283-ce19862c-6b4c-4827-b902-3e6c0aed4b98