A few weeks ago, the Co-Chairs of the Oregon Joint Ways and Means Committee released their much anticipated budget plan
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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Decades of evidence show that the tax rates of high-income households are unrelated to economic growth.
Under a tax loophole passed in 1999, nine banks that are plainly doing business in Oregon enjoy a legal fiction
The Nike Deal that went down last December ought to go down in history as a clear example of a
Let’s say that someone named Jack goes to a car dealership and pays $20,000 for a new Ford. Someone named
While Oregon families in the bottom fifth of the income scale pay 8.3 percent of all of their income in
The news that Jeld-Wen, Oregon’s largest private company, is establishing its North American headquarters in North Carolina confirms that corporate
That’s the justification given by the Nike, Governor Kitzhaber and others for ramming through a law that would allow the
Guess what corporate tax loophole will cost an additional $35.1 million next biennium without requiring that the beneficiaries create a
Yesterday, Governor Kitzhaber announced that he's calling a special legislative session to rush through a law that would allow him
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