Good news: Oregon’s revenue doesn’t look as bad as it did 3 months ago

Bad news: we're still facing a budget shortfall

Solution: Disconnect from tax cuts mainly for corporations and the wealthy that Congress enacted earlier this year, protecting the services Oregonians rely on

#ORleg #ORpol

Oregon business property tax breaks cost schools $275 million last year, study finds • Oregon Capital Chronicle The revenue schools lost to property tax breaks doubled between 2019 and 2024, driven by deals given to new data centers, researchers found.

Oregon business property tax breaks cost schools $275 million last year, a recent study found. buff.ly/J6G2l8H

Oregon early learning, child care programs poised for $45 million in cuts The agency estimated 600 children could lose access to free high-quality preschool.

It's so telling of legislative priorities that we're cutting funding for children while we're on track to give out bigger tax breaks for corporations #orleg #orpol www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

Tax Credit Increase Would Exclude Millions of Low-Income Children, Study Finds

Tax Credit Increase Would Exclude Millions of Low-Income Children, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

NEW CBO analysis of the effect of One Big Beautiful Bill on the trajectory of federal debt over the next decade.

While causing millions to lose health insurance and nutrition assistance, it would also accelerate growth of the federal debt.

WTF are we doing here?

The Big Ugly: why the U.S. House bill means less health care, less nutrition assistance, and less state revenue - Oregon Center for Public Policy The reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House ahead of Memorial Day is definitely big, taking up more than 1,000 pages. What’s in those pages, however, is

Overlooked in the federal tax and budget debate: Oregon will lose tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in state revenue due to "rolling reconnect" - a policy that automatically duplicates many federal tax changes in Oregon's tax system #orpol #orleg www.ocpp.org/2025/06/03/b...

Of course you're cutting Medicaid, Rep. Bentz YouTube video by Oregon Center for Public Policy

No matter how Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz spins it, the reality is that the House reconciliation bill cuts Medicaid.

By a lot.

And it does so to pay for tax cuts for the rich #orpol

New kicker. Same old tax cut favoring the rich #orleg #orpol

And I'm talking HUUUGE giveaways to the rich - average of nearly $80k for the top 1%

Rep. Bentz is the only Oregon Rep to support the Trump tax scam: pushing hundreds of thousands of Oregonians off health insurance and cutting food assistance to hungry children, seniors, and people with disabilities, all to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. #orpol

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office just issued an analysis that makes it clear: when you add up the tax cuts and the cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other services, the rich gain, the poor lose.

Read CBO analysis --> bit.ly/4jZQud3

Revenue forecast in #orleg is going to be down significantly. Yet, we'll still have billions in revenue we didn't have in the prior budget to invest in working families! This will be spun as a bad forecast, and yeah, it's worse than February due to tariffs, etc. but still an opportunity to invest!

Cuts to Medicaid, as proposed in the current budget plan moving in Congress, will hurt Oregonians in every congressional district. That's especially true for the 2nd Congressional district, covering Eastern and most of Southern Oregon.

You don't get that rich without grasping at every gold coin you can put on the pile.

Y'all, I've gone through the tax cuts part of the federal scam we're being sold and it's real bad. We're talking about huge giveaways for the rich and complicated "certifications" for workers to get tax breaks. No "certification" for the billionaires, just for a family with 3 kids making $40k/yr

$65k for the top 1% & $90 for the bottom 20%. More for those with the most, pennies for those with the least. PRIORITIES! #orpol

🚨 🚨 🚨 The emerging House R tax bill appears highly skewed to the wealthy, w/ several regressive expansions of 2017 tax cuts & full of costly timing gimmicks, while, despite the working-class rhetoric, failing to deliver for millions of working class families

Exempting overtime pay from taxes is a gimmick, not a solution for what ails working Oregonians • Oregon Capital Chronicle Exempting overtime pay from taxes may sound good, but it is a dangerous gimmick that hurts some workers, columnist Juan Carlos Ordóñez says.

Exempting overtime pay from taxes is a gimmick, not a real solution for what ails hardworking Oregonians.

#orpol #orleg

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Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax' Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

The number of Massachusetts residents making $1 million or more per year has INCREASED by nearly 40% since a millionaire's tax went into effect. Take note, #ORLeg

White House wariness tempers GOP plans to share food-aid spending with states Concerns are mounting about benefit cuts that could hit President Donald Trump’s own voters.

NEW ESTIMATES: The policy reported here—adding a state cost-share for #SNAP that ramps up to 22.5%—would impose $23.65 billion in new costs on states just in the first year it's fully phased in. This would likely lead to deep cuts to food assistance. State numbers in link below⤵️

Opinion: Vital medical breakthroughs still need animal research Animal research remains critically important in the work of preventing, treating and eradicating debilitating diseases, write OHSU's chief research officer Peter Barr-Gillespie and primate research ce...

We have to innovate and learn to heal - and the center is a crucial part of that. www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...

File your taxes using IRS Direct File, a free, secure, accurate and accessible product from the IRS. It is available in 25 states and allows you to import your tax information, like your W-2, directly from the IRS.

Visit DirectFile.irs.gov to check eligibility and learn more.

The Oregon Earned Income Tax Credit is a proven way of helping working families make ends meet. Strengthening the credit, as HB 2958 proposes, would make it work even better. Learn more --> bit.ly/3FEb03J

Oregon lawmakers consider more funding for free tax preparation program • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon lawmakers will consider nearly doubling funding for a program that provides free tax preparation to low-income families.

Oregon lawmakers will consider nearly doubling funding for a program that provides free tax preparation to low-income families, which participating organizations say is stretched to its limits. #orleg #orpol

It's a simple and effective way to help working families address rising costs - expand the Earned Income Tax Credit! #orpol #orleg @rickiruizor.bsky.social

Many USDA researchers working in the Northwest are fired, worked on everything from hops to potatoes Francisco Gonzalez, a 36-year-old research horticulturist, lost his job at the U.S. Department of Agriculture just before completing his three-year probationary period. This is part of a broader trend...

Science is progress, in vaccines or hops. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Slashing Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts Could Lead to Vast State Shortfalls Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions.

Let us summarize this article: In order to pay for tax cuts for their rich friends, the GOP is coming for the health care of the poor - and they don't really care if even their own voters get hurt.

Slashing Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts Could Lead to Vast State Shortfalls Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions.

The health coverage for millions of Americans is at risk from the House Republican budget bill. It could destroy so much of the progress in recent years.

Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition In Oregon’s 2nd district, Rep. Cliff Bentz (R) got a rude awakening...

At a recent town hall in Oregon’s most rural congressional district: "The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,' 'tax the rich' and “tax the billionaires."

Oregon can raise $116 million by cracking down on offshore corporate tax avoidance - Oregon Center for Public Policy Oregon can crack down on tax avoidance by large, multinational corporations by enacting a policy known as worldwide combined reporting, a change that would

There's an obvious way for Oregon and other states to put an end to offshore corporate tax avoidance. It's called worldwide combined reporting. Kudos to @itep.org for an excellent analysis