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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

TFO urges you to write Governor Kotek to ask her to veto HB 2083, a bill that would continue a tax benefit for Oregon’s wealthiest business owners. The bill is among a string of benefits for the rich the legislature deemed worthy in the 2023 session. Kotek has signed SB [...]

The legislative session: defeats, modest wins and one total victory It is hyperbole for an interest group to claim it achieved a particular legislative outcome. Many ingredients go into Salem Sausage over a six-month session. Tax Fairness Oregon sent 11 members to speak at 70 committee hearings and held hundreds [...]