Chair Hass, Vice-Chair Findley, and Members of the Committee, My name is Daniel Hauser, tax policy analyst for the Oregon
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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At a time when so much of the nation’s wealth is concentrated in the hands of so few, some Oregon
Chair Nathanson, Vice-Chair Reschke, Vice-Chair Marsh, and Members of the Committee, My name is Daniel Hauser, tax policy analyst for
Chair Nathanson, Vice-Chair Reschke, Vice-Chair Marsh, and members of the committee, My name is Daniel Hauser, tax policy analyst for
To find the way forward, it often helps to look at the past. That’s certainly the case when it comes
In the years to come, Oregonians could be on the hook for massive subsidies to wealthy investors, as a result
Following the failed playbook of trickle-down economics, the tax package lavished massive tax cuts on the rich and corporations.
In 2013, the Oregon legislature created a tax structure that favors rich business owners, to the detriment of Oregonians who
Tax policy has aided and abetted the rise of massive economic inequality in the U.S., a point highlighted in a
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