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Chuck Sheketoff

Chuck Sheketoff is executive director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy.

July 21, 2017Blog PostA tax credit for BS and six other Oregon tax policy changes you may have missed
June 29, 2017Blog PostGet on with it, Oregon Senate majority: end the “suits and scrubs” giveaway
June 21, 2017Blog PostReason to hope for a commercial activities tax (CAT) accompanied by a CAT Fairness Credit
June 20, 2017Blog Post The average Oregonian might rightly ask, “The CAT? Why all the fuss?”
June 19, 2017Blog PostPeople pay taxes on gross receipts, so why not businesses?
June 16, 2017Blog PostPublic structures and quality of life matter, not state rankings
June 10, 2017BlogThis time, what’s good for Kansas is good for Oregon
June 8, 2017Blog PostHow to push back against misleading claims about state spending that seek to derail a revenue-raising package
June 6, 2017BlogLights out at a Brighter Oregon
May 24, 2017Blog PostPink slips for teachers, a big tax cut for the wealthy
May 15, 2017Blog PostSmall voices with a big stake in state budget outcome
May 10, 2017BlogA gross receipts tax? Oregon already has one
May 1, 2017Blog PostThis May Day, think of not just flowers, but of how Oregon’s economy can do better for its workers
April 20, 2017Blog PostClearing the smoke on the pot tax
April 14, 2017Blog Post8 key things to know about Oregon corporate taxes
April 12, 2017Blog PostOregonians need homes, not tax shelters
March 31, 2017Blog PostWho needs a housing subsidy more?
March 24, 2017Blog PostA ready-made solution for protecting Oregon’s homeless children
March 21, 2017Blog PostWhom does Greg Walden represent?
March 10, 2017Blog PostThe rich families’ down-payment assistance program
February 15, 2017Blog Post13 ways to address Oregon's revenue shortfall
February 2, 2017Blog PostIt’s Groundhog Day, and Oregon is still stuck with one of the nation’s lowest business tax rates
December 22, 2016Blog PostTrump’s Obamacare Repeal Would Harm Oregon’s Budget, Economy, and Residents
November 14, 2016Blog postThe path forward after Measure 97
October 27, 2016Blog PostPowell's pays "partners" more than Measure 97 tax
October 26, 2016Blog postThe present and past funding of Oregon's schools
October 24, 2016Blog PostWhat did you say, Costco? There’s a thing called “the Internet?”
October 21, 2016Blog postWhy the misleading $600 figure is just a scare tactic
October 20, 2016Blog postThe disingenuous opposition to Measure 97
October 11, 2016Blog postAnswers to your questions on Measure 97
September 23, 2016Blog postNo, Gov. Brownback: You’re definitely not in Kansas anymore
September 17, 2016Blog postOccupy’s message still relevant at five
September 15, 2016Blog postThe Oregon Business Association’s tax flip-flop
September 13, 2016Blog postOregon health coverage numbers bolster case for Measure 97
September 3, 2016Blog postHow’s the labor market this Labor Day?
August 19, 2016BlogWelfare Reform at 20: A Block Grant is No Way to Help Children in Poverty
August 17, 2016Blog postWhat the Oregon restaurant and lodging lobby doesn’t want you (and its members) to know about Measure 97
August 10, 2016Blog postThe choice is clear with Measure 97: "Yes" to strengthen schools, "no" to endure budget cuts
July 21, 2016blogSay “No” to the Comcast Tax Con
July 7, 2016Blog postFantasy numbers or inconvenient truth?
April 21, 2016Blog PostAre some lawmakers confused about Oregon education funding and budget basics?
April 18, 2016Blog Post6 key facts about Oregon taxes
February 23, 2016Blog PostIt’s time to shake up Oregon’s infrastructure investment trend
February 17, 2016Blog PostPeeling away onion farmers' minimum wage claims
February 2, 2016Blog PostPutting the Constitution Up for ALEC to Grab, Again
January 27, 2016Blog PostLet this EITC Awareness Day be the last when Oregon ranks dead last in participation
January 12, 2016Blog PostRestaurant Owners Have Recipe for Success with Significant Minimum Wage Increases
December 9, 2015Blog PostA Guide to Evaluating Pay for Success
November 17, 2015Blog PostLet’s finish the job on health care reform
November 6, 2015Blog PostNo One Is in Charge: Leaving Federal EITC Bucks on the Table
November 5, 2015Blog PostQuestions for Those Who Oppose Raising the Minimum Wage
August 28, 2015Blog PostEtsy: Too Big and Crafty to Pay Taxes?
July 1, 2015Blog PostWill lawmakers disappoint taxpayers with their corporate minimum tax “fix?”
June 30, 2015Blog PostSB 567: A Kicker on Steriods in the Making
June 29, 2015Blog PostWill Oregon Lawmakers Coddle Thieves?
June 2, 2015Blog PostPay for prevention, not financiers and middlemen
May 21, 2015Blog PostWill the Kicker Make Oregon a Fool Again?
May 7, 2015Blog PostShine the Light on Corporate Tax Avoidance
April 30, 2015Blog PostA Constitutional Convention Plays Into ALEC’s Hand
April 15, 2015Statesman JournalOregon economy is fine; many working families are not
April 15, 2015Blog PostWhat’s Worse Than Earning Oregon’s Inadequate Minimum Wage? Having it Stolen
April 15, 2015Blog PostHundreds of Corporations Never Sing This
April 13, 2015Blog PostCorporation Tells Truth About Tax Subsidy
March 14, 2015Blog PostYes, Oregon has very low business taxes and is quite competitive
March 6, 2015BlogOregon’s Higher Ed Cuts In Perspective
March 4, 2015Blog PostFood Stamp Use and Oregon's Commitment to Help Families
February 20, 2015Blog PostThere’s Oregon Precedent for a Big Minimum Wage Increase
January 23, 2015Blog Post$15 Minimum Wage Means Real Gains for Workers
December 19, 2014Blog PostNike Tax Deal and the Killing of Entrepreneurship
October 30, 2014Blog PostNearly All Poor Latino Families in Oregon Are . . .
October 24, 2014Blog PostHealth Care for ALL Children
October 7, 2014Blog PostMove for $40?
August 20, 2014Blog PostErnst & Young finds Oregon has nation's lowest total effective business tax rate
July 31, 2014Blog PostThe Income Inequality Oath: First, Do No Harm
April 30, 2014Blog PostIllustrating Oregon's Defining Challenge
April 7, 2014Blog Post Return-free Filing Is Taxes Done Right
February 26, 2014Blog PostTrucking Along, Avoiding Corporate Income Taxes
January 23, 2014Blog PostToward A Budget That Addresses Racial Disparities and Creates Opportunity for All
December 15, 2013Blog PostIntel Deal and Ghost of Tom McCall
December 9, 2013Blog PostOregon Got Nothing from Kitzhaber-Intel Deal
December 3, 2013Blog PostThe Real Problem with the Latest Tax Plan
October 30, 2013Blog PostGrand Bargain Tax Games Begin
September 30, 2013Blog PostIf You’re Going to Make A Bad Deal, at Least Don’t Make It Open-Ended
September 25, 2013Blog Post20 pictures that explain why we're in for a grandly flawed tax bargain
September 21, 2013Blog PostAn Oregonian Shows Growth in Income Inequality
August 30, 2013Blog PostWhat should you be making?
August 22, 2013Blog PostThe Key to Increasing Wages and Productivity
July 17, 2013Blog PostThe McBudget vs. EPI's Basic Family Budget
June 28, 2013Blog PostSo they say their priority is "jobs" . . .
June 22, 2013Blog Post"Inequality.is" Fun
June 14, 2013Blog PostWhat's the Strongest Defense Against Hunger?
June 1, 2013Blog PostBizarro World
May 25, 2013Blog PostSmall Businesses and the EITC Part 3: Extend and improve this tax credit
May 24, 2013Blog PostThe World Turns Upside Down for the Tax Credits Committee
May 22, 2013Blog PostSmall Businesses and the EITC Part 2: It's spent in the community
May 21, 2013Blog PostSmall Businesses and the EITC Part 1: Renewing and improving the EITC is the right thing to do
May 4, 2013Blog PostOregon's Lesson to the Nation: Medicaid Works
May 1, 2013Blog PostLetting tourists off easy
April 30, 2013Blog PostThe Misguided “Small Business Tax Cut”
April 26, 2013Blog PostKeep Your Eye on the Jobs-to-Worker Ratio
April 19, 2013Blog PostHey Governor and Oregon Business Association, Read the Paper!
April 10, 2013Blog PostPutting Nike's $96,000-a-day compensation to Mark Parker into perspective
April 9, 2013Blog PostReport: Wyden is positioned to protect low-income working families
April 3, 2013The OregonianA Sales Tax is the Wrong Place for Oregon to Start on Reform
March 30, 2013Blog PostWill the 2013 Legislature Thaw Decades of Indifference to Oregon’s Poorest Children?
March 27, 2013Blog PostA Progressive Proposal to Reach Co-Chairs' Revenue Goal
March 1, 2013Blog PostNine Banks Not Taxed
February 25, 2013CommentaryPreserve the Credit Workers Have Earned
February 22, 2013Blog PostNew Nike Slogan: "I Was Already Just Doing It"
February 21, 2013Blog PostThank you, U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn
February 11, 2013Blog PostIt's National 2-1-1 Day!
January 25, 2013Blog PostHow the EITC Benefits Everyone
December 26, 2012Blog PostCongress Needs to Extend Emergency Unemployment Insurance - Now
December 14, 2012Blog PostJeld-Wen’s HQ Decision: Proof that Taxes Don’t Matter and Nike Deal is Foolish
December 14, 2012Blog PostBeware "Tax Certainty"
December 12, 2012Blog PostThe $35 million increase in tax loophole spending not tied to a single job
December 11, 2012Blog PostA Highly Dubious Assumption in the Governor's Proposed Nike Deal
December 10, 2012Blog PostSimple Explanation of "Single-Sales Factor" and How Nike Escapes Taxes As A Result
October 13, 2012Blog PostThe Oregonian Reports Highest Paid Executive "Glad" to Pay Federal Income Taxes
October 9, 2012Blog Post$96,000 a Day and the Great Disconnect
October 9, 2012CommentaryMy Sequel to We're Not Broke
October 9, 2012Blog PostWhat the State Entrepreneurship Index Says to Oregon Voters
October 5, 2012Blog PostTax Déjà vu All Over Again
October 3, 2012Blog PostWhen You Think About Oregon's 42%, Think "Worker"
September 12, 2012Blog PostOregon’s Progress on Health Coverage Shows Progress on Poverty Is Also Possible
July 25, 2012Blog PostOregon Ties for Nation's Lowest Business Taxes
July 18, 2012Blog PostThe Oregon Estate Tax’s $2 Billion Loophole
June 15, 2012Blog PostWhen You Think "Immigrant," Think "Small Business Owner"
June 6, 2012Blog PostWaging a Winning Fight Against Wage Theft
June 5, 2012Blog PostBreaking News: Oregon’s Economic Growth Shines Again
April 27, 2012Blog PostOur Economy Can Afford Better Pay for All Workers
April 18, 2012Blog PostOops! Fact that matters overlooked by ALEC
April 16, 2012Blog PostOregon In Shameful Company This Tax Day
April 16, 2012CommentaryThe Forgotten Tax Day Story
March 31, 2012Blog PostNews: Oregonians Have More Income
March 7, 2012Blog PostWe're a Low-Tax, High-Fee State
February 16, 2012Blog PostLaffer is #Laffable
February 15, 2012Blog PostHigh Income Taxes Accompany Stronger State Economies
January 27, 2012CommentaryFamilies Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck Need to Know the EITC Will Be There
December 22, 2011Blog PostIf Oregon Capital Gains Income Were a Pizza . . .
December 20, 2011CommentaryIt's Business as Usual If You Ignore Income Inequality and Poverty
December 15, 2011Blog Post46,700 Oregonians may learn 3.3 million reasons why US House unemployment bill is wrong
November 17, 2011Blog Post455 Million Reasons to Say "Thank You" to Voters
November 14, 2011Blog PostWill Congress Vote for Economic Catastrophe By Adopting a Balanced Budget Amendment?
November 8, 2011Blog PostPoverty Is Even More Shocking Than Previously Estimated
November 7, 2011Blog PostAn Otherwise Good-to-See News Story in The Oregonian
October 11, 2011Blog PostWhat Was Not Inside Intel’s Economic Report
October 8, 2011The Statesman JournalMeasures 66, 67 averted deeper cuts in state
October 4, 2011Blog PostMessage to Governor Kitzhaber: The road to excellence in education begins with poverty reduction
September 21, 2011Blog PostOne Chart Shows Obama Is Right About "Buffett Rule"
September 20, 2011Blog PostThe Tea Party Zone
September 15, 2011Blog Post2012 Minimum Wage Hike Good for Oregonians and Good for Economy
September 1, 2011Blog PostIf CEOs cared about the economy . . .
August 30, 2011Blog PostRead About and Speak Out for the Middle Class
August 10, 2011Blog PostMillionaires pay no federal income taxes
August 4, 2011Blog PostSorry, Oregon Business Council and ECONorthwest, but the rich stay put despite tax increases
July 26, 2011CommentaryTax Code Sunsets and the Dawn of Majority Rule
July 1, 2011Blog PostResponsibly Confront the National Deficit
June 20, 2011Blog PostSB 817: Will Wall Street Score an End-of-Session Win?
June 17, 2011Blog PostHurry and make money by grabbing your share of leaking subsidy
June 6, 2011Blog PostJune 7: A Date That Will Live in Fiscal and Economic Infamy
June 5, 2011Blog PostHow Much do Poor Kids Matter Compared to Corporations and the Rich?
June 2, 2011Blog PostOregon’s Mushrooming Millionaires
May 27, 2011Blog PostWe're Not Broke
May 25, 2011Blog PostCan it be that they will coddle the thieves?
May 24, 2011CommentaryWill Lawmakers Prioritize Oregon’s Middle Class?
May 12, 2011Blog PostState Economic Report Undercuts Loophole Lobby’s Call for Special, Speculator Tax Cut
May 2, 2011The SkannerTrade the Kicker for a Capital Gains Tax Reduction? No Thanks
April 29, 2011CommentaryTrade the Kicker for a Boot That Stomps on the Middle Class? No Thanks
April 26, 2011Blog PostLawmakers’ vote on wage theft legislation comes down to a very simple choice
April 20, 2011Blog PostIntel’s Message on Higher Education Does Not Compute
March 25, 2011Blog PostNew Data Shows Big Business Lobby Wrong, Again.
March 18, 2011Blog PostThe $134 million tax cut for Oregon’s wealthy that you probably haven’t heard of
February 25, 2011CommentaryThe Costly and Ineffective Home Ownership Subsidy
February 4, 2011Blog PostA Tax Code Subsidy Gets Ways and Means Review: A Reality-Based Fiction
January 26, 2011The OregonianRespect Oregonians' historic "yes" vote
January 25, 2011CommentaryRespect Oregonians' Historic "Yes" Vote
January 12, 2011Forest Grove News-TimesA tax cut that bleeds revenue and risks jobs
December 5, 2010CommentaryA Tax Cut That Bleeds Revenue and Penalizes Work
November 4, 2010Beaverton Valley TimesIt's a matter of priorities for Oregon Legislature
October 8, 2010The OregonianWhy won't they say recession?
October 1, 2010CommentaryIt's a Matter of Priorities
June 4, 2010The OregonianPerceptions and misperceptions about Oregon's business climate
May 18, 2010Clackamas ReviewSome things you just can't Google
April 6, 2010CommentarySome Things You Just Can't Google
December 6, 2009CommentaryLet Businesses Speak Truth to Folly
November 23, 2009Blog PostThe Curious Math of Corporate Oregon
October 1, 2009CommentaryMaking Money and Paying the Corporate Minimum Tax
May 1, 2009CommentaryI Want Climate Change
April 23, 2009Blog PostWhile Your Investments Were Shrinking . . . .You Helped Wal-Mart
April 10, 2009Blog PostHere's Hoping for a Monty Python Tax
March 2, 2009CommentaryEnd Oregon’s Rob-Peter-to-Pay-Paul Funding Schemes
December 7, 2008CommentaryI Love New York . . . Economists
November 2, 2008CommentaryFired Up and Ready to Go End Poverty
October 4, 2008CommentaryHands Off Our School Children’s Recession Cookie Jar
September 1, 2008CommentaryA $75,000 Bargain for Oregon Taxpayers
July 9, 2008CommentaryData and Common Sense Be Damned
April 15, 2008Blog PostA Tax Day Message from Irving Berlin
January 31, 2008CommentaryOregon Lottery Scratch-its: The New Joe Camel
December 19, 2007CommentaryA New Year’s Resolution for Oregon: A Mobile, Living Billboard
June 19, 2007CommentaryA Ladder to the Moon
May 30, 2007CommentaryOregonians Are Hostage to the Fractions Faction
April 30, 2007CommentaryWhich Oregon Companies Use Tax Dollars to Pay Their Workers?
March 14, 2007CommentaryAs Maryland Goes, So Should Oregon
November 29, 2006CommentaryThe First Step for a Truly Hopeful Tax Reform Plan for Oregon
October 28, 2006CommentaryIt Will Be A Great Day
September 10, 2006CommentaryBusiness Leaders: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
August 31, 2006Oregonians can see that Measure 41 is fool’s gold
July 6, 2006CommentaryBiotech, Beer, and the Public's Right to Know
May 5, 2006CommentaryYou are on the Bridge to Nowhere Line Item Veto Act of 2006
April 30, 2006CommentaryCorporate Accountability Reporting
March 14, 2006CommentaryDo Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves?
December 23, 2005CommentaryThe Budget Tsunami
November 11, 2005CommentaryGordon Smith’s $1.9-Billion-a-Week Problem
July 7, 2005CommentaryShared Sacrifice for the Budgetary Mess
June 6, 2005CommentaryTax Breaks and Secret Spending
May 5, 2005CommentaryIs Intel Bluffing?
March 3, 2005CommentaryMilk Matters?
January 29, 2005CommentaryBeware the Snake Oil Salesmen
December 2, 2004CommentaryTake The Deceptive Rhetoric Out of Budget Policy
November 2, 2004CommentaryBizarre Study on State Spending Exposed
September 1, 2004CommentaryPermission Granted: Take the High Road
April 4, 2004CommentaryTaxes Tell About Life
January 4, 2004CommentaryPennies, Nickels, Dimes, and Measure 30
October 1, 2003CommentaryTrick or Treat from the GOP?
June 1, 2003CommentaryThe Big Disconnect
March 11, 2003ReportFor the Greater Good
February 1, 2003CommentaryCorporate Taxes 101
November 1, 2002CommentaryThe Stability Drug
January 1, 2002CommentaryEnron and Oregon's Revenue Shortfall
July 1, 2001CommentaryA Balanced Budget?
March 21, 2001Op-edLeft Behind: A Quarter Million Oregon Children
March 5, 2001Op-edThe Kicker: "Permission Granted"
March 1, 2001CommentaryChild Care: A Weak Link
April 20, 1999ReportTax Credits and Maintenance-of-Effort

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