A service of the Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation.
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, NIKE is cutting 2% of its worldwide workforce. At home, 740 employees at their headquarters are being laid off. As for Intel, they laid off 7,000 employees nationwide last year, and just announced a new round of layoffs this April. Intel is one of Oregon’s largest private employers. This…
Chart: Oregon Office Economic Analysis By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation Chart shows where Oregonians are moving from and where they are moving into by various regions. Oregonians are leaving the high taxed areas of Portland and residing in Central/Eastern Oregon and even Washington State.
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, As KPTV reports, the downtown Portland Buffalo Wild Wings locations is closing after 17 years due to crime, vandalism and loss of traffic due to the multi-year riots in Portland. The owner begged the landlord, City of Portland, for more security but declined. Interesting, since the City of…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, A few weeks ago the 2024 Legislature passed a budget bill that dedicates $2 million of tax dollars to “newcomer” services. In the past, this has meant spending $29 million for a welcome hotel near the Portland airport for illegal, unvetted migrants. Because this budget bill is now law,…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, If you’re wondering how Oregon’s drug users get the money to buy all that fentanyl, Willamette Week has an answer: the Bottle Bill. According to the article, it takes only 50 cans to get enough bottle deposit money to buy a daily dose of fentanyl. “Canners” root through garbage…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation Wow! Oregon home-grown and much praised coffee company, Dutch Bros., is moving 40% of its support staff to Arizona. They say it because that is where the growth is. True. Oregon is shrinking in population. Arizona is in the top 5 population growth states. Oregon is in the top…
By Bob Clark, Economist Guest submission for Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, The above chart is of per person real after-tax income by selected state (after-tax income adjusted by the state’s relative cost of living). It is compiled from U.S Bureau of Economics, a department of the Federal government, data (released on December 14,…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Doxo reports that Portland makes the top 12 utility cost cities. This now puts utility costs among the nation’s highest along with taxes, fees, gas prices, cost of living and housing costs. The U.S. average bill is $351. Oregon utility bills exceeded the U.S. national average at $363 per…
By Jason Williams Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Veronica Guerin is a superb 2003 true-life story featuring Kate Blanchett as she plays the Irish journalist who took on the drug lords and was murdered for it. In the 1990’s, drugs and crime were experiencing a surge in Ireland. Newspapers were reluctant to report on it.…
By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, Oregon voters who approved Measure 10 decriminalizing drugs thought addicts who received a $100 ticket would call a hotline to have the fee waived—and receive treatment needed to beat their addiction. But that didn’t happen. Between implementation of the law in February 2021 and September 2023, law enforcement officers…