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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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One of the most compelling arguments for a sales tax is that Oregon can capture funds from out-of-state tourists.
The desire to help small business owners is understandable, as they are an important component of our economy and communities.
Governor John Kitzhaber and Oregon Business Association leaders should have read last Friday's edition of the Portland Business Journal before
The income group in Oregon that pays the highest share of their income to state and local taxes: Lowest-income households.[1]
It was refreshing to read The Oregonian's March 31 editorial "Oregon's income gap," insofar as it recognized the need for
A few weeks ago, the Co-Chairs of the Oregon Joint Ways and Means Committee released their much anticipated budget plan
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
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