A group of Portland-area business lobbyists, advisors and leaders want to overhaul several recently-adopted — and regularly criticized — taxes, including Preschool for All, the Supportive Housing Services tax & Portland Clean Energy Fund.
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Right-wingers tolerate their shitty governments because they share their bigoted hateful values and left-wingers tolerate their shitty governments because they claim to have progressive values.
aug 20, 2025, 2:34 am • 1 0 • view
What’s their phone number? I want to tell them to fuck off
aug 20, 2025, 12:12 am • 3 0 • view
The Art tax?
aug 20, 2025, 6:30 am • 0 0 • view
B y popular vote or strong arming tactics ?
aug 20, 2025, 9:12 am • 0 0 • view
Here is the list of people to bother and companies to boycott/protest. They should leave if they don’t want to provide resources for those who live here.
aug 20, 2025, 2:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Gonna keep my mouth ”mute” here. I know Oregon (especially Portland) has gone through some 💩 as has Washington state - Seattle. The PNW is beautiful. Hoping it can once again get back to tree hugging, pretty level headed people back in check.
aug 20, 2025, 11:17 am • 0 0 • view
The wealth of the board is troubling. If they paid a modest living wage, we could lower the costs (and taxes) of these programs. The money has to come from somewhere they decry. How about from your salary?
aug 20, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
What a disappointment Kotek has been.
aug 20, 2025, 4:54 am • 9 0 • view
I almost regret canvassing for her but then I remember Christine Drazan exists.
aug 21, 2025, 4:59 pm • 2 0 • view
And in bizarro world we could have been saddled with Betsy.
aug 21, 2025, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Nothing says 'in touch with Oregon' like "representatives from law firm Schwabe, semiconductor company Ampere, the Portland Metro Chamber, two different financial management companies, and private foundations like the Meyer Memorial Trust and the 1803 Fund" being greenlit by Kotek to demand tax cuts
aug 20, 2025, 1:18 am • 16 2 • view
I grew up in Portland, and I can't make sense of anything that's going on there.
aug 20, 2025, 2:18 am • 3 0 • view
Oh, I wonder why...
aug 19, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
We are living through a Libertarian hellscape.
aug 20, 2025, 4:45 am • 1 0 • view
Translation: we want to gut those programs.
aug 20, 2025, 1:21 pm • 4 0 • view
🎯👏👏👏
aug 20, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh look. It's all progressive policy implementation as usual. 🙄 They can't help but attack anything good for the common person.
aug 20, 2025, 12:12 pm • 5 0 • view
The homeless tax is an Oregon tax administered by the city of Portland and stretches into Washington. I’m sure they are sorry now. It was the worst roll out of a tax I’ve ever seen. The tax and payroll software companies were not ready. What a mess. Wanted to quit my job.
aug 24, 2025, 11:36 am • 0 0 • view
These same busineses probably put 47 in charge. hope all their busineses close. Fukem.
aug 20, 2025, 2:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Some of these changes seem clearly needed for fiscal responsibility with the funds collected, and others would be really bad ideas/unpopular. But I’d imagine voters would be more likely to continue to support these measures (or any other new local taxes) if the first group of changes was implemented
aug 19, 2025, 6:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Otherwise like many progressive Portland ballot measures folks may be fed up enough with implementation and funds hoarding to throw the baby out with the bath water, and reverse their earlier supportive votes.
aug 19, 2025, 6:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Stop Em.
aug 20, 2025, 5:14 am • 0 0 • view
Don’t Prop 13 yourself, Oregon. Learn from California’s mistakes.
aug 20, 2025, 12:43 pm • 3 0 • view
fuck these rich pricks.
aug 20, 2025, 12:14 am • 0 0 • view
Pre-school for all at the expense of the rich makes the community vibrant and welcoming to families. If these wealthy business types had any forward-looking sense in them they’d be proud of making the community stronger and prosperous.
aug 19, 2025, 6:24 pm • 41 5 • view
This is just a list of wealthy orgs and trusts established by wealthy people who don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes. 1803 is Phil Knight ffs. He’s a major Republican donor.
aug 19, 2025, 6:39 pm • 24 4 • view
Longterm, they prefer a poor & uneducated workforce they can exploit.
aug 19, 2025, 6:28 pm • 5 0 • view
Correct! What they want is a bunch of serfs living in company-owned housing
aug 20, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed, pdx taxation is weird...
aug 20, 2025, 10:00 am • 0 0 • view
Sure. Because businesses don’t access pre-K for all, housing assistance… Corporations are not people. The citizenry has needs. Government by, of and FOR the people should listen to THE PEOPLE. Lobbyists and chambers of commerce have constituents. They just are not the voters.
aug 20, 2025, 12:45 pm • 4 0 • view
The headline “Corporate fat cats cranky their profits aren’t even more egregious while screwing over anyone they can to achieve it” was too long for print.
aug 19, 2025, 6:20 pm • 29 4 • view
I haven’t read the article yet, but I’m sure they trotted out at least one small business owner to be the face of this complaint so they can create the fantasy that it’s hurting The Little Guy & not the multi-billion corporations. They do that. Every. Time. The Sympathy Playbook for Wealth.
aug 19, 2025, 6:24 pm • 11 2 • view
And the people are always stupid enough to fall for it.
aug 20, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Portland sucks at the implementation of good ideas, or really anything requiring distribution of funds or official approvals through the interlocking bureaucracies. It’s true even for simple things like sewer and water. I don’t think acting like this isn’t a key problem here helps these ideas
aug 19, 2025, 6:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh no it’s not anyone small it’s an advisory group of wealthy benefactors
aug 19, 2025, 6:35 pm • 10 1 • view