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GOP finalizes tax cuts

Dec 27, 2017

The newly passed law contains the biggest corporate tax cut in history, and nearly all its benefits go to the richest Americans.

Senate Republicans passed a sweeping package of tax changes in the dead of night Dec. 1. The bill reduces taxes dramatically on corporations and high-income taxpayers, while raising them slightly on many working people.

Trump tax plan courts major backlash

Oct 31, 2017

The GOP tax plan would give the top tenth of a percent an average tax cut of over $1 million a year.

Trickle-down Trump

Oct 17, 2017

President Trump’s tax cut proposal is a continuation of President Reagan’s failed tax plan, or “Trickle Down Economics.”

Measure 97: The Game Changer

Oct 20, 2016

After decades of legislative failure to solve the state’s revenue problem, union-sponsored Measure 97 will make a better Oregon —by asking giant corporations to pay their fair share. And that could lead to similar efforts around the country.

Five corporate lies (and two truths) about Measure 97

Oct 20, 2016

$18.3 million in mostly out-of-state corporate money buys a lot of ads and spreads a lot of disinformation, doubt and fear about Measure 97. Don’t be fooled.

Could Measure 97 accidentally get Oregon’s roads in order?

Oct 20, 2016

The funds are aimed at K-12, health care and seniors, but the courts could decide that $250 million has to go to roads.

Oregon Legislative session 2011 a mixed bag for labor

Jul 15, 2011

Oregon lawmakers wrapped up the 2011 Legislative session June 30. If there was anything memorable in it for working people, it was that lawmakers finally cut corporate tax breaks down to size … except when they were giving out new ones. It was also the year that the Oregon Legislature gave state agencies a new aspirational goal: Lay off managers, not just front-line state employees. In a state with 9.6 percent unemployment, the closest lawmakers got to passing a jobs bill was a pilot project that will employ some workers on energy efficiency retrofits of public schools, or maybe the new law removing procedural roadblocks to pipelines and other “linear” construction projects.