Oregon: Earth

June 1, 2009 - 12:07 pm
NEWS FEED: BlueOregon

I Want Climate Change

I want climate change. No, I’m not talking about an increase in Earth’s temperature that would melt the polar ice caps. I’m talking about a change in the political climate in Oregon that would melt lawmakers’ reluctance to reform our corporate tax system — change that would fulfill Oregonians’ desire to see large corporations doing business here pay their fair share in taxes. Oregon's corporate income tax system is broken. It’s so riddled with loopholes that big corporations today are paying about half of the income taxes, as a share of their profits, that they paid in Oregon a generation...