Measure 59, which would allow an unlimited deduction of federal income taxes on state tax returns, offers no tax break
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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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
Like this year’s delayed spring, Oregon’s growing embrace of sustainability offers both great hope and frustration.
Oregon doubled its take of venture capital last year without conferring special tax breaks to encourage the investment, according to
President Bush’s proposed 2009 budget would cut over $200 million in federal funding for a slew of social programs in
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