
You are on the Bridge to Nowhere Line Item Veto Act of 2006
Last fall, Congress funded the infamous Bridge to Nowhere, connecting an Alaska town of 8,000 with an island of fewer than 50 people with a bridge that was higher than the Brooklyn Bridge.
Last fall, Congress funded the infamous Bridge to Nowhere, connecting an Alaska town of 8,000 with an island of fewer than 50 people with a bridge that was higher than the Brooklyn Bridge.
Oregon’s corporate income tax system is broken. It is so riddled with loopholes that big corporations today are paying a fraction of the income taxes, as a share of their profits, that they paid in Oregon a generation ago.
At the recent annual Dorchester conference of Oregon Republicans, US Senator Gordon Smith reportedly talked about taxes, the economy, and the size of government.
US Senator Gordon Smith has a problem. He appears to be hooked on fiscally irresponsible tax cuts, in general, and repeal of the estate tax, in particular.
What’s wrong with this picture? The country has gone from a projected surplus to deficit in just four years.
During a television interview recently, I was asked what tax break I considered the most outrageous of the 352 tax breaks explained in Oregon’s Tax Expenditure Report.
Washington County commissioners are proposing to sign a new “Strategic Investment Program” tax break agreement with Intel. In response to Intel’s thinly veiled threats to abandon Oregon, the commissioners are planning to give away $579 million of property taxes that are dedicated to funding public services.
Do you make life-changing decisions based on dairy prices? Is the price of milk a factor in whether you have more children? Buy a car? Move to a new house? Go back to school? Give to charity?
Watch out Oregon, the snake oil salesmen are rolling into town, with old medicine in a new bottle: “The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis,” by David Osborne and Peter Hutchinson.
Our new legislature will have its hands full struggling with Oregon’s budget and tax policies. Meanwhile, opponents of quality public services will be in full attack mode, using deceptive and misleading rhetoric to make their case.
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