....if you get too cold I'll tax the heat, if you take a walk I'll tax your feet...

....if you read a book I'll tax your eyes, if you drink a pop I'll tax your thighs...

Personally, I vote against all tax measures and levies. I'm long since tired of theft by government.

I'm only surprised they aren't taxing people for moving to Vancouver. Yet.

Okay, now, wait a minute. First Sam is on his big kick about attracting the "creative class", which at least implies that the innumerable hipsters he's trying to attract might have some way of turning their art into income. (Yeah, I know, it is to laugh, but bear with me.) Now the implication is that Portland simply won't have enough bad art unless it's subsidized with tax revenues, and that everyone needs to pay so Josh and Meghan can grunt out a few Etsy numbers. Doesn't this also imply, you know, that maybe, just maybe, the logical progression would be to jump up the city's economy to the point where general passersby could afford to buy all of the art that's produced?

Seriously, I feel for the number of people responding to that original article by stating "I'll take a loss on the house, but I'm moving now." We're not far away from the day when all of Portland's economy consists of hipsters selling Regretsy rejects to each other.