Williams is a life-long taxpayer advocate who has archived the state’s largest collection of government waste. Jason heads both the Taxpayer Association of Oregon Foundation and its sister organization, Taxpayer Association of Oregon.

Top 10 brands Oregonians boycott

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon & Foundation OregonWatchdog.com Here are the top 10 brands/products that are boycotted by Oregonians over politics. 21% – Target 17% – Disney 16% – Budweiser 11% – Nike 8% – Starbucks 6% – Coca-Cola 5% – Ben & Jerry’s 4% – Ford Motor Company 4% – GAP 3% – Facebook…

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Taxpayers Assoc. turns 25! (History of Oregon’s Tax Revolt)

(Photo: TAO co-Founder, Don McIntire, in his earlier days (1990) campaigning fro Measure 5 which cut your property taxes 40%. (right) TAO co-founder, Jason Williams, at a Measure 30 petition drive to defeat the billion-dollar income tax.  This cut your income taxes by 10%) By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com Here is a history of…

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Oregon’s 7 most admired

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon & Foundation, We know there is a lot of negativity and bad news in Oregon … … so we aimed to try focus on the positive. We asked Taxpayers Association of Oregon supporters which elected officials are doing a great job. There were 422 responses highlighting 40 elected officials, and…

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Serial thieves plague Portland, churches

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, A burglar broke into St. Michael the Archangel Church in downtown Portland three times in one week and stole sacred items.  The church is offered a $1,000 reward for return of its sacred tabernacle and a holy item inside it.  It was later discovered in a garbage dumpster. Father…

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College costs +38%, enrollment -10%

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation About 10 percent fewer Oregonians are heading to college after high school graduation than the number who did so a decade ago, a change partly due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2011, about 65 percent of high school students attended community college or a university or trade school within…

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Union blocks strike replacement nurses. (Deaths can rise 18%)

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, The Oregon Nurses Association is part of a 3,000 nurse strike in six different Providence health centers.  The Union is now asking other nurses not to show up to fill-in lost nurses to hospitals. KPTV reports, “The [union] letter provided by Providence said in part, “Providence is trying to…

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“Mother Theresa” clad thief hits church 3x

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, A burglar broke into St. Michael the Archangel Church in downtown Portland three times in one week and stole sacred items, which parishioners want returned.t. The church is offering a $1,000 reward for return of its sacred tabernacle and a holy item inside it. Father Ignacio Llorente said video…

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Oregon mass media layoffs, sell-offs

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation EO Media Group which operates a dozen Oregon newspapers will be giving layoffs or cutting hours to nearly 50 Oregon employees. The Portland Tribune has sold its top publications and well as over 20 other Oregon media outlets which represent some of Oregon’s most well-known newspapers. The Taxpayers Association…

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Eugene Register Guard: 3 local stories among 8 pages

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, There are more big signs of decline in the print industry. The Eugene Register Guard used to have 80 reporters, and is now down to 6 or less. The Eugene Register Guard, before the pandemic, had at one point 40,000 subscribers, by 2021 it fell to just over 20,000.…

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Oregon’s children population decline

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation, New federal data reveal that Oregon is among the top five states for having the least amount children per population.  The other states are Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Driving down the child-rate is the high number of families with young children who are emigrating out of Oregon.  At…

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