The Tax Foundation’s 2007 State Business Tax Climate Index claims that Oregon’s economic future is bright because its business taxes
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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When your W-2 form arrives, think of this: Certain multistate corporations are paying much less in corporate income taxes today
As strange as it may seem, a number of Oregon legislators are seriously discussing providing a windfall to wealthy people
Proponents of a ballot initiative that imposes an overly harsh and arbitrary spending limit in Oregon’s constitution are calling their
A new report finds that all but the wealthiest Oregonians will be worse off because of tax cuts enacted by
What happens when a community foundation and an ideological political magazine jointly convene and facilitate a group of 37 Oregon
Some people joke that there was a fork in the trail that led prospectors to the nation’s West Coast during
Measure 41 on the November 2006 ballot offers fool’s gold to Oregonians. The measure would make Oregon’s tax system more
Oregon's TABOR proposal - Measure 48 - would place an arbitrary spending growth scheme in Oregon’s constitution. Although proponents refer
Last month, the Senate Budget Committee adopted legislation that purportedly would reduce the nation’s deficit. The Stop Over-Spending Act, (S.
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