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Baseball funding strategy session
Should the state give $25 million to build baseball stadiums for professional, privately-owned baseball teams? This is still on the docket for the February session. We sent you our commentary on it in September: https://taxfairnessoregon.net/20-million-for-the-owners-of-the-hillsboro-hops/. And have done considerable research since, leading to this talking points paper: https://taxfairnessoregon.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TFO-comments-Stadium-Funding.pdf we’ve been sharing with legislators. But [...]
What do you think of the kicker?
We think the Kicker is Oregon’s very worst tax policy. And it’s stuck in the Constitution, thanks to the Republicans who referred it to the voters 24 years ago. As one of you recently wrote, “no one, including the highest paid people in Wall Street, can accurately predict the state [...]
Celebrating and supporting our work for Tax Fairness in Oregon
After all the pleas you received on Giving Tuesday, TFO sends its own on “Giving Wednesday.” We are grateful for your support. Below we’re sharing with you readers the fundraising letter we mailed to donors of record. In the 2023 legislative session, members of TFO testified more than 70 times [...]
$20 million for the owners of the Hillsboro Hops?
On September 18, Jody Wiser’s OpEd was published in the Portland Tribune: For the past 50 years wealth inequality has steadily worsened in the U.S. In Oregon, the top 10% own three times as much as the other 90%. While the Oregon legislature cannot solve a national problem, they don’t [...]
Let’s stop increasing wealth inequality
For us, the last session brought some mixed emotions. We watched, helpless in the last hours when the legislature passed two bills with radically different impacts. One, the Kids’ Credit will mean a lot to some poor families with young children. They’ll receive $1000 for each child under six. That’s [...]