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This Week in the Capitol: Health Care and Hair Braiding
In the waning days of the legislative session in Salem, Cascadians are still at work representing the views of free-market and limited-government Oregonians. On Monday, Steve Buckstein took up the fight against single payer health care, testifying about the negatives … Continue reading
Cascade in the Capitol: Testimony Opposing an Oregon Single Payer Health Care System
Audio of the entire hearing is here. Steve Buckstein’s oral testimony begins at the 36:37 mark. Testimony in Opposition to HB 2922 The “Affordable Health Care for All Oregon” Plan Before the House Committee on Health Care By Steve … Continue reading
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Tagged single payer
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Job Creation Shouldn’t Be Our Goal
The next time someone argues that we need government to “create jobs,” show him or her this three-minute video. Then show it to them again, and again, until they grasp the concept:
Posted in Cascade Website, Oregon Economic Opportunity, Steve Buckstein
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This Week in the Capitol: Sales Tax and TriMet
Cascade’s John Charles and Steve Buckstein talked with legislators in Salem this week about the need to reform the TriMet transit agency and why Oregon voters are wary of instituting a sales tax. On Monday, John Charles testified before the … Continue reading
This Week in the Capitol: Virtual Schools, Tobacco Taxes, and Land-Use
We are a month and a half into Oregon’s 2013 legislative session. Cascade’s John Charles and Steve Buckstein are in the capitol several days each week, bringing free-market and fiscally responsible perspectives to issues before numerous committees. On Tuesday, Steve … Continue reading
The 2013 Film Awards you didn’t see on TV
Every now and then I decide to watch a TV program that has nothing to do with politics; nothing to do with public policy; nothing to do with government. I have enough of those things in my day job. Perhaps … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Awards, Motion Picture Institute
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Debunking Tax Myths
Two of Oregon’s top private economists, and Cascade authors, have now produced a national publication which debunks seven popular tax myths commonly used by advocates of higher taxes. Dr. Randall Pozdena and Dr. Eric Fruits discuss the following seven myths … Continue reading
Cascade in the Capitol: Opposition to more subsidies of student higher education costs
State Treasurer Ted Wheeler has proposed that the state obligate its citizens to repaying hundreds of millions of dollars in General Obligation bonds to subsidies student higher education costs. Below is the prepared testimony that I gave to a House … Continue reading
Rest In Peace, Don McIntire
Don McIntire, best known as the father of Oregon’s property tax limitation Measure 5, died unexpectedly this week at his Gresham home. He was 74. I knew and worked with Don on various tax and government limitation efforts since the … Continue reading
Should we make Government Better, or Smaller?
The concept of Reinventing Government, from the 1992 book by the same name, offers no clue about what government should or shouldn’t do. Should we try to make government better, or smaller? Should the state introduce more creative lottery games, … Continue reading
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Tagged gambling, privatize, reinvent government, reinventing government
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