Update: July 26, 2011

Tax Code Sunsets and the Dawn of Majority Rule

The recently concluded Oregon legislative session demonstrated that there is an effective tool for reining in out-of-control tax subsidies and loopholes -- the sunset provision. A sunset establishes a date by which a law automatically expires.

Sunsets help put our fiscal house in order and restore majority rule -- democracy itself. That's why the next legislature should sunset all forms of tax code spending that currently have no expiration date.

Read the CenterPoints column Tax Code Sunsets and the Dawn of Majority Rule.