At a time when families are struggling with the rising cost of food and other essentials, the last thing Oregon should be doing is spending precious resources on new tax cuts for the rich and corporations. And yet, that’s exactly what’s happening.

Because Oregon automatically follows changes in the federal tax code, Oregon has doubled down on many of the tax breaks the Trump administration and the Republican majority in Congress gave to the rich and corporations as part of their monstrous tax and budget bill enacted last July. But there’s still time for Oregon to act.

Tell Oregon lawmakers to reject the Trump tax breaks for the rich and corporations.

To pay for those massive tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, the congressional Republican budget cuts Medicaid and nutrition assistance. That will make life that much harder for families in Oregon and across the nation, while also shifting billions in new costs for those programs onto the state. That means the state will need more resources to prevent increased hardship for Oregon families.

Unless the Oregon legislature disconnects from the tax breaks favoring the wealthy and corporations, the state will find it difficult to avoid cutting funding for schools, health care and other services that families depend on.

Urge Oregon lawmakers to retake control of our tax policy. Tell them to disconnect from the Trump tax cuts.

At a time when so many Oregon families are struggling to put food on the table and cover the rent, and at a time when the fortunes of the wealthy have rarely been so massive, the state legislature needs to do the common-sense thing. It needs to reject the federal policies favoring the wealthy few and act in the interest of Oregon families. By rejecting tax breaks that mainly enrich corporations and the wealthy, lawmakers can recover hundreds of millions of dollars this budget period, helping protect the services Oregon families depend on.

Now is the time to act! Tell lawmakers to disconnect now from the Trump tax breaks.