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PROBLEM: OREGON'S BUDGET CRISIS

Oregon is in trouble. We are facing massive budget gaps. If we do nothing, the state will have to lay off thousands and undertake deep, painful cuts to schools, the disabled and seniors, state troopers, economic development budgets, courts, parks, prisons -- every agency and program Oregonians depend on.

 

Times are tough, and we all understand the need for shared sacrifices -- including sensible cuts across all sectors. However, corporations and the wealthiest Oregonians must also pitch in and shoulder a reasonable share of the burden. We won’t have to endure such deep crippling cuts to our most basic public services if we require corporations and the wealthy to pay their fair share.

SOLUTION: Fair Share Tax Reform

  • Corporations Should Pay Their Fair Share

Oregon has shifted the responsibility for taxes away from corporations and onto individual taxpayers and small businesses over the last 30 years. The corporate share of total state income taxes has dropped more than 60%.

 

Fair Share Tax Reform will ask that corporations pay more.

Meaningful reform requires a substantial increase in Oregon’s corporate tax collections, not just a small increase in the $10 minimum, which is what two-thirds of C corporations operating in Oregon now pay.

Fair Share Tax Reform will ask that corporations pay more.

  • Wealthy Oregonians Should Pay Their Fair Share

The wealthiest Oregonians have paid more in other economic crisis situations.  The top tax rate was raised to 10.8% during the 1980’s economic crisis.  Today, working class families and the very rich pay the same marginal tax rate – 9%.


Fair Share Tax Reform will ask that the wealthiest Oregonians pay at higher rates.

Let’s get through this crisis the only way that’s fair – by asking everyone to pay their fair share.