Category: Tax and Budget

Summary The governor’s Task Force on Comprehensive Revenue Restructuring recently discussed imposing a…

Introduction In a world where taxes are used to finance government, possibilities for…

The collapse of the I-35 Bridge and loss of life in Minneapolis is…

The Oregonian’s front page feature on lobbyist Mark Nelson is a revealing insight…

Funding for the Oregon State Police has been so scarce in recent years…

Electronic waste is a challenge, not a crisis. Disposing of e-waste in a…

Virtually everyone agrees that the state of Oregon needs a rainy day fund;…

The primary effect of Oregon’s land-use regulatory system (especially the use of UGBs…

The number of claims filed under M 37 indicates a vast, pent-up demand…

Governor Kulongoski wants the state to offer free or highly subsidized health insurance…

After spending the first sixteen years of its existence located in downtown Portland,…

One result of last week’s election is that we may finally achieve tax…

Federal tax credits for hybrid-electric vehicles manufactured by Toyota will be cut in…

Metro recently decided to impose a $0.25 tax on all Oregon zoo admissions,…

Summary Oregon state and local governments levy over $268 million a year in…

Last November state economists estimated that Oregon’s tax revenues could exceed their projections…

The State of Oregon sued tobacco companies this week to recover more money…

Now that Oregon’s economy is finally showing signs of life, we are again…

Last year, Inc. magazine rated Portland the nation’s eighth worst metro area in…

Critics are complaining that corporations pay less than their fare share of taxes…

As the debate over Social Security reform heats up, one area of disagreement…

Not too many years ago, the Public Broadcasting Service asked this provocative question:…

Summary This report updates and expands on a previous Cascade Policy Institute report…

Public health nannies complain that the defeat of Measure 30 reduced Oregon’s tobacco…

Oregonians will soon vote on the legislature’s $1 billion tax package. Because this…

Union workers in Patient Business Services at Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU)…

Preface Watershed events often become dividing lines in history. Twenty-five years ago, Californians…

On September 9, Alabama voters rejected a $1.2 billion tax increase. Some 67…

What do you think about the recent politician-approved three-year “temporary” state income tax…

The Statesman Journal has a counter on its website tallying the taxpayer burden…

The mass exodus of Oregon public employees—due to pending changes in the Public…

Why should doing something that is legal today land you in jail tomorrow?…

Multnomah County voters just approved Oregon’s only local income tax, primarily to help…

As Multnomah County voters make up their minds about the new county income…

Close on the heels of Measure 28’s failure Portland and Multnomah County officials…

Oregon legislators are eager to review existing tax breaks. The thinking is, some…

The Oregon Road User Fee Task Force recently became the object of scorn…

Oregonians have nixed a sales tax nine times at the ballot box, yet…

During the last session Oregon legislators created the current budget shortfall. They added…

Portland’s Mayor Katz and Commissioner Sten are spending a half-million dollars to study…

In June of 1993 Cascade Policy Institute published the report Seven Principles of…

The stock market has plunged over the last two years. Recent corporate accounting…

Low voter turnout in the recent Oregon primary election helped block numerous tax…

When U.S. Drug Czar John Walters spoke in Portland last Friday he touched…

Gubernatorial candidate Ron Saxton deserves praise for making the state’s financially insolvent Public…

The collapse of Enron has been grabbing headlines for months. Politicians are on…

The Oregonian‘s four-part story about Oregon’s slowly collapsing highway bridges points to a…