Minnesotan Garrison Keillor once joked, “I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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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News Release Today’s revenue forecast should be cause for concern for legislators and voters alike. The 2007 legislature budgeted a
A costly tax break that would force deep cuts in public services, Measure 59 on the November ballot would give
Measure 59, which would allow an unlimited deduction of federal income taxes on state tax returns, offers no tax break
It is by now old news in Oregon that corporations are not paying their fair share of our income taxes.
Economic models are only as good as the assumptions on which they rest, and sometimes economists are so blinded by
As rural counties in Oregon grapple with the loss of federal timber payments, a new study out today estimates that
Oregon state and local taxes take a bigger bite out of the pocketbooks of poor and middle-class families than those
Irving Berlin learned that in 1942 the federal government was going to undertake "unprecedented income tax collections" to support the
The Bush Administration has issued a number of Medicaid regulations over the last year that will substantially reduce federal health
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