Oregon cannot achieve economic justice or eliminate racial disparities without taxing the rich. Taxing the rich is an essential step
Tax Justice
Tax justice is central to economic justice. Taxes are how, together, we fund schools, health care, transportation, and the many public services that foster quality of life. Unfortunately, wealthy elites and the corporations they control have rigged the tax system in their favor, building a system that asks least from those who have the most.
Tax Justice
Tax justice is central to economic justice. Taxes are how, together, we fund schools, health care, transportation, and the many public services that foster quality of life. Unfortunately, wealthy elites and the corporations they control have rigged the tax system in their favor, building a system that asks least from those who have the most.
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Unless the Oregon legislature intervenes, some very rich business owners will receive a new tax cut from the state, just
Unless the Oregon legislature intervenes, some very rich business owners will receive a new tax cut from the state, just
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Suspending the Oregon Corporate Activity Tax (CAT), as some in the business community have urged, would undermine school funding at
More than three dozen organizations today urged Oregon lawmakers to reject calls for business tax cuts issued in the wake
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