A staircase shaped like a waterfall. A lobby sculptured like a forest. These are some of the finishing touches on the soon-to-open Ritz-Carlton in downtown Portland, where $7 million only gets you a standard condo.
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Imagine two people. One is a senior citizen who, after a lifetime of toiling in low-paid jobs, now scrapes by on Social Security income. The other is a hedge fund manager pulling in millions a year. Which of these two should get a tax rebate from the State of Oregon? That’s a pertinent question right
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Many families in Oregon struggle to put food on the table, and this is especially true for many immigrant families. They are excluded from the nation’s most important anti-hunger program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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Oregon suffers from a severe, long-standing housing crisis. Many families are one missed paycheck away from eviction, tens of thousands of Oregonians experience homelessness each year,[1] and many families cannot afford the steep price of buying a home. Oregon needs to invest in in making housing more affordable. One way to generate the necessary resources is
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Now that Tax Day is behind us, audit season has begun. The IRS will flag some tax returns for closer scrutiny. And, as a recent study by researchers at Stanford University, University of Michigan, University of Chicago and the Treasury Department revealed, you’re more likely to be on the receiving end of an audit if you’re Black.
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Chair Meek, Vice-Chair Boquist, and members of the Committee: My name is Daniel Hauser (he/him), Deputy Director for the Oregon Center for Public Policy and I respectfully submit this testimony in support of Senate Bill 976 on behalf of the Center. The Oregon Center for Public Policy is a think tank dedicated to improving the
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Co-Chairs Sollman and Bynum, Co-Vice Chairs Knopp and Wallan, and Members of the Committee, My name is Daniel Hauser (he/him), Deputy Director for the Oregon Center for Public Policy and I respectfully submit this testimony on research and development (R&D) tax credits. The Oregon Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to
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Tax Day is here. There’s no better moment to reflect on our tax system — the system by which “we pay for civilized society,” as US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes pointed out nearly 100 years ago. To mark Tax Day, we share eight things to know about Oregon’s tax system. 1. The tax
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Care workers play a vital role in our communities. They feed, bathe, and otherwise care for those who cannot take care of themselves. In doing so, care workers make it possible for others to go to work and live their lives.
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Making Oregonians more economically secure requires investing in our well-being: housing, education, child care, and more. One fair way to pay for these investments is to increase taxes on the highest-earning Oregonians, especially millionaires.
How to pay (PAE) for it? Tax the rich. Read More »