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Offshore Tax Havens Cost Oregon Taxpayers Dearly

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
By | David Rosenfeld
Executive Director

Just in time for Tax Day, OSPIRG released another fine piece of work from our national Budget and Taxes guru Phineas Baxendall.  The report-Picking up the Tab: Average Citizens and Small Businesses Pay the Price for Offshore Tax Havens-examines the practice of hiding legitimate U.S. profits and income in offshore tax havens. While this has mostly been discussed as a federal matter, the topic has a big impact on Oregon taxpayers, small businesses and state revenue.

Why are young people driving less?

Friday, April 6, 2012
By | David Rosenfeld
Executive Director

New report by OSPIRG Foundation and Frontier Group that documents the nationwide decline in driving—and finds that young people are leading the trend. The report explores the many factors that have led to the decrease in driving among the young. Bottom line: if these trends are structural, as the data suggests, then transportation planners will need to overhaul their assumptions about whether the nation needs (or can afford) major highway expansions.

50 Years Ago This Week, JFK Ushered in Modern Consumer Protection Era

Wednesday, March 14, 2012
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Consumer Program Director

I've got a new column at Huffington Post, "50 Years Ago This Week, JFK Ushered in Modern Consumer Protection Era." I discuss President Kennedy's visionary "Special Message to the Congress on Protecting the Consumer Interest" announced on March 15, 1962. He declared that consumers have rights and government should protect them. Read the full column after the jump.

Could Obama's Business Tax Reform Realize Its Potential?

Thursday, March 1, 2012
By | Matt Orchant
Fellow

The much anticipated corporate tax reform framework released last week by President Obama hit all the right notes but lacked the details to know if can fully realize it’s potential.

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