Nickels and dimes
The slow strangulation of Portland's livability by the Sam Rand twins is chronicled, in part, here.
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Comments (11)
Left out the "tax your patience" fee.
Posted by Tom | November 15, 2012 2:46 PM
You certainly can’t provide a high level of basic services without somehow paying for them, but the diversion our tax monies to very expensive pet projects has got us to this point. I can easily point to MLR and a few others. The end does not justify the means, and the evidence why it does not is clearly outlined in the article.
Posted by Gibby | November 15, 2012 3:55 PM
Sam "King George III" Adams.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | November 15, 2012 4:16 PM
I live in Portland. But,I doubt that I'd move into Portland if I wasn't already here.
Posted by David E Gilmore | November 15, 2012 5:18 PM
I think the water rates alone will stop some from coming into Portland and that includes businesses. We have had a PWB and council that went along with the debt swamping!
Posted by clinamen | November 15, 2012 5:32 PM
O's Beth Slovic asks "what fees and taxes did we miss?".
She forgot many:
1)the Service Development Charges (SDC's) that Sam strongly asked to be increased.
2)The placement of parking meters throughout SoWhat that Sam required all revenue to go to MLR.
3)extreme rate increases on water and sewer and garbage service.
Keep adding to her list, folks.
Posted by lw | November 15, 2012 5:44 PM
Add Sam's attempt down at the State Legislature to add a real estate transfer tax. The state realtor organization was pretty upset.
Posted by lw | November 15, 2012 6:04 PM
Tax dollars at work:
http://lostoregon.org/2012/11/13/mystery-structure-on-grand-near-the-hawthorne-bridge/
Posted by Andrew | November 15, 2012 6:44 PM
Portland will suffer greatly as the populous kicks and screams while being forced to wean itself from their addiction to the dysfunction they like to call being weird.
The city just re-elected Sam Rand in some different clones.
They can pretend for a while longer that these conflicted and incompetent saps are human. But more and more people are finding them repulsive and their work producing lousy results.
Posted by Lots of Ds know it | November 15, 2012 7:23 PM
Hmm, if we're looking at arbitrary taxes, how about a wireless internet tax? Maybe something like $0.50 per connection at an internet cafe?
Posted by CM | November 15, 2012 11:40 PM
"Add Sam's attempt down at the State Legislature to add a real estate transfer tax. The state realtor organization was pretty upset."
Didn't we vote on that this month? And I was told "nobody's ever proposed such a tax, so this is a fake issue, and don't vote for it".
Posted by Sam T. | November 16, 2012 8:26 AM