OPINION: Time to Stop the PERS Pac-Man from Eating Teachers’ Salaries & Taxpayers’ Pocketbooks
What do Pac-Man and public pensions have in common? An intriguing 2016 national study of…
Author Steve Buckstein of Cascade Policy Institute in Portland
Steve Buckstein of Cascade Policy Institute in Portland
Steve Buckstein is Founder and Senior Policy Analyst at Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization.
U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Public Employee Worker Freedom
Cascade Policy Institute stands with Mark Janus and all Oregon public employees who want their…
Measure 101 Deserves Your No Vote
By now you should have your ballot for the January 23rd statewide election asking you…
OPINION: Why Protesters of Betsy DeVos Can’t Understand What She’s Talking About
What would you do if you read an article about an Oregon public high school…
Stop Health Care Taxes dot com
The Oregon legislature just passed, and the Governor signed, a bill designed to generate some…
OPINION: Kicker Envy 2017
Individual Oregon income taxpayers may receive kicker refunds when they file their 2017 tax returns…
Improve Education Outcomes Through Education Savings Accounts, Not Measure 97’s Hidden Sales Tax
On the third day of the new school year at Portland’s Madison High School, Governor…
Measure 97: A $30 Billion Gamble Oregon Voters Shouldn’t Make
The massive gross receipts tax Measure 97 on Oregon’s November ballot (previously known as Initiative…
A Sales Tax by Any Other Name…
Public employee union backers of Initiative Petition 28 have turned in more than enough signatures…
“When in the Course of Human Events…”— A Declaration That Never Goes out of Style
Two hundred and forty years ago this July 4, the world was gifted with one…