Less than zero. That was Intel’s federal tax bill in 2022. Not only did Intel pay no federal income taxes that year, the company even recorded a $249 million tax credit reducing future tax payments, according to the Portland Business Journal. And if Intel paid no federal income taxes, it raises the question, how much did […]
[This commentary first appeared in The Oregonian.] We all want Oregon to prosper. We all want our state to be the home of innovation. To achieve that, public policies must be based on facts. A recent opinion in The Oregonian/OregonLive (“Oregon must step up its game to boost state’s competitiveness,” March 12) disregards the facts when calling on
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All Oregonians deserve to live in dignity — to enjoy economic security and the possibility to thrive. This is doable. Oregon, after all, is a prosperous state in one of history’s richest countries. But as the coronavirus pandemic has made clear, many Oregonians struggle to make ends meet. At a time when the income of
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By all accounts, the 2019 Oregon legislative session was historic. Even before the second walkout by Senate Republicans ground deliberations to a halt, the legislature had already enacted the largest investment in education in memory and tenant protections legislation. The last two days of the session that followed the end of the walkout produced a flurry of
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