A costly tax break that would force deep cuts in public services, Measure 59 on the November ballot would give the richest Oregon households — millionaires on average — a tax break averaging more than $15,000 and middle-income families a tax break averaging just $2, according to an analysis released today by the Oregon Center for Public Policy.
Measure 59, which would allow an unlimited deduction of federal income taxes on state tax returns, offers no tax break to more than three out of four Oregon taxpayers.
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It is by now old news in Oregon that corporations are not paying their fair share of our income taxes. People know that two out of three corporations get away with paying our outdated $10 a year corporate minimum tax. Oregonians know there’s a corporate loophole lobby.
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News Release Since China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, a ballooning trade deficit with the Asian giant has caused massive job losses in the U.S., with Oregon workers among the hardest hit, according to a report released today by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). The Washington, D.C.-based think tank placed Oregon among the four
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The Oregon Center for Public Policy’s tagline “Because facts matter” rejects the cynical and oft-repeated claim that the public, voters and policymakers don’t care about the facts. Now that tagline is getting national recognition, as it is among the winners of the 2008 Nonprofit Tagline Award Competition announced today. “We are delighted to be a
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The Oregon Center for Public Policy’s tagline “Because facts matter” rejects the cynical and oft-repeated claim that the public, voters and policymakers don’t care about the facts. Now that tagline is getting national recognition, as it is among the winners of the 2008 Nonprofit Tagline Award Competition announced today.
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Improvements to the federal Child Tax Credit would help the families of about 155,000 Oregon children, according to advocates who today called on U.S. Senators Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden to back the proposed changes.
Child Tax Credit Fix Would Help 155,000 Oregon Children Read More »
Economic models are only as good as the assumptions on which they rest, and sometimes economists are so blinded by their ideologies that they don’t notice when their models produce meaningless fantasies.
Data and Common Sense Be Damned Read More »
Legislation enacted over the course of several years laid the foundation for an economy in which the fruits of prosperity were widely shared
The New Deal Still a Good Deal Read More »
Legislation proposed by Rhode Island U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse capping carbon emissions can protect low-income Oregonians while fighting global warming, advocates told Oregon’s U.S. Senators Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden today in a letter presented prior to a vote on the issue.
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