Daniel Hauser
danielchauser.bsky.social
Daniel Hauser
@danielchauser.bsky.social
'Socialist-adjacent radical' | Deputy Director @OCPPnews.bsky.social | he/him | #orpol #orleg
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Good news: Oregon’s revenue doesn’t look as bad as it did 3 months ago

Bad news: we're still facing a budget shortfall

Solution: Disconnect from tax cuts mainly for corporations and the wealthy that Congress enacted earlier this year, protecting the services Oregonians rely on

#ORleg #ORpol
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Oregon business property tax breaks cost schools $275 million last year, a recent study found. buff.ly/J6G2l8H
Oregon business property tax breaks cost schools $275 million last year, study finds • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The revenue schools lost to property tax breaks doubled between 2019 and 2024, driven by deals given to new data centers, researchers found.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It's so telling of legislative priorities that we're cutting funding for children while we're on track to give out bigger tax breaks for corporations #orleg #orpol www.oregonlive.com/education/20...
Oregon early learning, child care programs poised for $45 million in cuts
The agency estimated 600 children could lose access to free high-quality preschool.
www.oregonlive.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Tax Credit Increase Would Exclude Millions of Low-Income Children, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...
Tax Credit Increase Would Exclude Millions of Low-Income Children, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
June 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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NEW CBO analysis of the effect of One Big Beautiful Bill on the trajectory of federal debt over the next decade.

While causing millions to lose health insurance and nutrition assistance, it would also accelerate growth of the federal debt.

WTF are we doing here?
June 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Overlooked in the federal tax and budget debate: Oregon will lose tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in state revenue due to "rolling reconnect" - a policy that automatically duplicates many federal tax changes in Oregon's tax system #orpol #orleg www.ocpp.org/2025/06/03/b...
The Big Ugly: why the U.S. House bill means less health care, less nutrition assistance, and less state revenue - Oregon Center for Public Policy
The reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House ahead of Memorial Day is definitely big, taking up more than 1,000 pages. What’s in those pages, however, is
www.ocpp.org
June 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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No matter how Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz spins it, the reality is that the House reconciliation bill cuts Medicaid.

By a lot.

And it does so to pay for tax cuts for the rich #orpol
Of course you're cutting Medicaid, Rep. Bentz
YouTube video by Oregon Center for Public Policy
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June 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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New kicker. Same old tax cut favoring the rich #orleg #orpol
May 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Rep. Bentz is the only Oregon Rep to support the Trump tax scam: pushing hundreds of thousands of Oregonians off health insurance and cutting food assistance to hungry children, seniors, and people with disabilities, all to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. #orpol
May 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office just issued an analysis that makes it clear: when you add up the tax cuts and the cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other services, the rich gain, the poor lose.

Read CBO analysis --> bit.ly/4jZQud3
May 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Revenue forecast in #orleg is going to be down significantly. Yet, we'll still have billions in revenue we didn't have in the prior budget to invest in working families! This will be spun as a bad forecast, and yeah, it's worse than February due to tariffs, etc. but still an opportunity to invest!
May 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Cuts to Medicaid, as proposed in the current budget plan moving in Congress, will hurt Oregonians in every congressional district. That's especially true for the 2nd Congressional district, covering Eastern and most of Southern Oregon.
May 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Y'all, I've gone through the tax cuts part of the federal scam we're being sold and it's real bad. We're talking about huge giveaways for the rich and complicated "certifications" for workers to get tax breaks. No "certification" for the billionaires, just for a family with 3 kids making $40k/yr
May 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
$65k for the top 1% & $90 for the bottom 20%. More for those with the most, pennies for those with the least. PRIORITIES! #orpol
New @centeronbudget.bsky.social analysis of the draft GOP tax plan released yesterday:

Unsurprisingly, it provides enormous tax cuts for the wealthy—including an average annual $65k cut for the top 1%—while doing little for low- and moderate-income families in 2027 (and even less by 2029).
May 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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🚨 🚨 🚨 The emerging House R tax bill appears highly skewed to the wealthy, w/ several regressive expansions of 2017 tax cuts & full of costly timing gimmicks, while, despite the working-class rhetoric, failing to deliver for millions of working class families
May 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Exempting overtime pay from taxes is a gimmick, not a real solution for what ails hardworking Oregonians.

#orpol #orleg

oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/06/e...
Exempting overtime pay from taxes is a gimmick, not a solution for what ails working Oregonians • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Exempting overtime pay from taxes may sound good, but it is a dangerous gimmick that hurts some workers, columnist Juan Carlos Ordóñez says.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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The number of Massachusetts residents making $1 million or more per year has INCREASED by nearly 40% since a millionaire's tax went into effect. Take note, #ORLeg
Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax'
Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.
www.wbur.org
April 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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NEW ESTIMATES: The policy reported here—adding a state cost-share for #SNAP that ramps up to 22.5%—would impose $23.65 billion in new costs on states just in the first year it's fully phased in. This would likely lead to deep cuts to food assistance. State numbers in link below⤵️
White House wariness tempers GOP plans to share food-aid spending with states
Concerns are mounting about benefit cuts that could hit President Donald Trump’s own voters.
www.politico.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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File your taxes using IRS Direct File, a free, secure, accurate and accessible product from the IRS. It is available in 25 states and allows you to import your tax information, like your W-2, directly from the IRS.

Visit DirectFile.irs.gov to check eligibility and learn more.
DirectFile.irs.gov
April 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The Oregon Earned Income Tax Credit is a proven way of helping working families make ends meet. Strengthening the credit, as HB 2958 proposes, would make it work even better. Learn more --> bit.ly/3FEb03J
March 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Oregon lawmakers will consider nearly doubling funding for a program that provides free tax preparation to low-income families, which participating organizations say is stretched to its limits. #orleg #orpol
Oregon lawmakers consider more funding for free tax preparation program • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon lawmakers will consider nearly doubling funding for a program that provides free tax preparation to low-income families.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's a simple and effective way to help working families address rising costs - expand the Earned Income Tax Credit! #orpol #orleg @rickiruizor.bsky.social
Many Oregonians are being squeezed by insufficient wages and rising costs. That's why we to strengthen Oregon's #EITC. Kudos to Sen. Wlnsvey Campos, Rep. Ricki Ruiz and other champions of legislation to do just that
Opinion: How Oregon can help working families cope with rising prices
Two lawmakers say a more robust Oregon Earned Income Tax Credit will help working families and the economy.
www.portlandtribune.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Let us summarize this article: In order to pay for tax cuts for their rich friends, the GOP is coming for the health care of the poor - and they don't really care if even their own voters get hurt.
Slashing Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts Could Lead to Vast State Shortfalls
Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions.
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM