News Release A new report released today by the Oregon Center for Public Policy finds that the tax burden in Oregon is near its lowest levels in the last twenty years. Total state and local taxes as a share of income in Oregon have gone from 11.8 percent in 1988 to 10.2 percent in 1999, […]
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News Release A report released today by the Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP) finds that most Oregonians would see little or no benefit from a capital gains tax cut being considered by the Senate Revenue Committee. The report also debunks arguments by the bill’s supporters that it will help the economy. The report includes
Executive Summary The Oregon Legislative Assembly is currently considering several proposals to cut the tax on capital gains. Two introduced at the request of the state’s large business lobby, Associated Oregon Industries (AOI), Senate Bill 67 and House Bill 2486 (“the AOI bills”) would cut Oregon’s capital gains tax rate by more than half. The
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Families who work hard and play by the rules can no longer expect to get ahead
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Agency Balks at Implementation
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The Oregon House of Representatives this week passed House Joint Memorial 28 supporting President Bush’s tax cut plan. The resolution claims that the President’s plan would “contribute to raising the standard of living for all Americans.” In fact, one of three Oregon families will get no benefit from the Bush plan. Altogether, 146,000 Oregon families,
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News Release A new report released today by the Oregon Center for Public Policy describes how Oregon could change its food stamp program rules to provide more food assistance to legal immigrant families at no cost to the State. The change in program rules would help make up for the fact that many legal immigrants
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The Governor and legislators are difficult to understand. They tell us they have to make deep and painful budget cuts in everything from human services to public safety because there is not enough revenue for the coming biennium. At the same time, they are moving full-steam ahead with plans for a massive tax cut that
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The idea underlying Governor Kitzhaber’s Oregon Children’s Plan makes intuitive sense – invest in children early on and Oregon may reap long term benefits. Plan supporters tout the plan as an example of investing substantial resources in early childhood development activities. One problem is that the Children’s Plan gives short shrift to improving child care
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Executive Summary Child care affordability is of great concern to many working families with children. The need for parents to find accessible, quality care at a reasonable cost has urgency today. Many single-parent families have been leaving or have been diverted from welfare for work, and from the late 1970s to the late 1990s the