TFO had an extraordinary week: we testified FOR three bills. So in this report, we’ll set aside all the cockamamie proposals we’ve spoke against and celebrate the alignment of the stars. Three items on the proactive agenda we set at the beginning of the session had hearings. Strategic Investment Program [...]

Tax Fairness Oregon volunteers have been working every day since the legislative session began, reading bills, testifying before committees and lobbying members. Communicating with our membership has taken a backseat. Here is a diary entry—February 9—from one of our active members, Bennett Minton. Democracy is work This is Dylan and [...]

Are rich people moving to Oregon or are the folks already hear just getting richer?  Who knows.  But statistics from tax filings show that the number of Oregonians with high incomes is up, really dramatically. https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/01/25/even-during-pandemic-oregon-added-high-earners-at-rapid-clip/

Since summer we’ve been having conversations with both legislators and the press about ending Oregon’s property tax breaks for warehouses and distribution centers.  Clearly it’s working, we expect to bring changes to these enterprise zone programs in the coming legislative session with HB 3011. In an Oregonian article Mike Rogoway [...]

The House speaker and the Senate president were elected without a hitch. Legislators were sworn in and started dropping bills. Some of them are ours, so we were off to Salem to start talking them up. Semiconductor Incentives. The Biden administration is working to bring home manufacturing, and under the [...]