13-11 Cooperative Governance and Oregon Tax Reform Proposal
Channel: PopulistDialogues
Date: 2013-03-08

Guest Alex Linsker, an organizer with Tax & Conversation, asks "What happens when companies are democratically run?"  Tax & Conversation is a cooperatively run tax reform effort which is striving to write an Oregon ballot initiative to reform Oregon's tax structure.  Currently there are approximately 400 tax exceptions (loopholes).  What would happen if individuals and corporations paid all their taxes without being able to exercise tax exceptions?  According to Alex, the result would be $700/individual refund distributed directly to each Oregonian each month and a dramatic change in who pays taxes.