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Charles Sheketoff

Chuck Sheketoff is a founder of the Oregon Center for Public Policy and former Executive Director. Incorporated in 1995, the Center was launched with Chuck as its first executive director after Chuck received the "public interest pioneer award" from the Stern Family Fund in September, 1997. Prior to starting the Center, Chuck lobbied the Oregon legislature on tax policies and on human services programs' policies and budgets on behalf of legal aid clients (1992 to 1996) and the low-income clients of the Oregon Law Center (1997).
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Hey Governor and Oregon Business Association, Read the Paper!

Governor John Kitzhaber and Oregon Business Association leaders should have read last Friday’s edition of the Portland Business Journal before claiming to the Senate Committee on Finance and Revenue this week that Oregon’s income tax on investment gains — capital gains — discourages investment in Oregon.

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We’re a Low-Tax, High-Fee State

Let me put a disclaimer right up front: it is rather meaningless to compare states in terms of revenue collections (as, unfortunately, is often done in political and policy discussions).

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One Chart Shows Obama Is Right About “Buffett Rule”

One chart by our colleagues at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) that uses data from the Tax Policy Center (TPC), is all President Obama needs to show why he’s right in proposing to raise federal taxes on the wealthiest Americans (the so-called “Buffett Rule” ).

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Intel’s Message on Higher Education Does Not Compute

On the heels of a weekend news report that Intel is taxing Hillsboro and Beaverton schools with the influx of about 400 Israeli children because of an Intel four-month training program for their parents, Intel executives showed up at a business association meeting on Tuesday to complain about the inability of Oregon’s Higher-Education system to produce enough skilled engineers.

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Let Businesses Speak Truth to Folly

Recent news stories highlight a major challenge that legislative leaders faced when they adopted their balanced budget plan: the refusal by some business lobbying groups and some otherwise reasonable people to acknowledge that the public sector is an important part of the economy.

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