Chair Nathanson, Vice-Chair Reschke, Vice-Chair Marsh, and Members of the Committee, My name is Daniel Hauser, tax policy analyst for
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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Chair Nathanson, Vice-Chair Reschke, Vice-Chair Marsh, and members of the committee, My name is Daniel Hauser, tax policy analyst for
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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
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About a quarter-million Oregon working families face a tax increase if Senators in the minority fail to return to Salem
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