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No plan(ners) required
kathryn hickok February 25, 2003 0
A Portland newspaper editor recently implored in print, "We need a plan, people, soon."
Why just one plan? In Portland, for example, some want tax incentives to attract business, others want more business taxes to fund our schools. Some want Major League Baseball, others want to invest in engineering schools. To planners such disparate talk sounds like (more…)
Don't adopt the "Daughter of 28"
Close on the heels of Measure 28's failure Portland and Multnomah County officials have started dreaming of more creative ways to tax people, rather than live within the means of taxpayers. Specifics about the new taxes are hard to come by. There is no consensus on whom to tax or what to tax.
Multnomah County Commissioner Lisa Naito has proposed that (more…)
Paving the rails with gold
Cascade Policy Institute February 11, 2003 0
Since the voter defeat of Measure 28, public officials in the Portland region have proposed numerous emergency tax plans to stave off service cuts such as shortened school years. Oddly, these same elected officials are warmly embracing the joint proposal of Metro and TriMet to spend $850 million building two new light rail lines.
According to Metro's Environmental Impact Statement, each new trip on light rail will cost (more…)
New approach to education can reduce achievement gap
kathryn hickok February 4, 2003 0
Oregon education officials recently revealed what many have long known – the public schools have not addressed the persistent achievement gap between white and minority students. The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) will request a waiver from the portion of the federal No Child Left Behind Act that requires schools to make adequate yearly progress for all students, regardless of race or income level.
The ODE is worried that schools will miss (more…)
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CASCADE COURIER E-NEWSLETTER SIGNUP
Cascade Policy Institute
Every month when you pay your electricity bill, you pay a surcharge of about 5.6%. If you are a natural gas customer, you pay a similar tax ranging from 2.5% to 4.9%, depending on your vendor. Both taxes are likely identified as a "Public Purpose Charge" (PPC). bit.ly/3oRGC8Q … See MoreSee Less
Why are we still paying a "temporary" energy tax 19 years later? – Cascade Policy Institute
By John A. Chalres. Jr. Every month when you pay your electricity bill, you pay a surcharge of about 5.6%. If you are a natural gas customer, you pay a similar tax ranging from 2.5% to 4.9%, depending…
Would you like to have a nice picnic near a garbage dump? How about a meeting? If Metro has its way, these are just some of the frills that will come attached to its newest waste facility. bit.ly/2Kcy6C1 … See MoreSee Less
The Region's New Transfer Station Means Frills and Bills – Cascade Policy Institute
By Vlad Yurlov Would you like to have a nice picnic near a garbage dump? How about a meeting? If Metro has its way, these are just some of the frills that will come attached to its newest waste facili…
"A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom." … See MoreSee Less
Would you like to have a nice picnic near a garbage dump? How about a meeting? If Metro has its way, these are just some of the frills that will come attached to its newest waste facility.
A new transfer station is being planned in Cornelius to expand waste management services to the west side of the region. But instead of providing a functional facility that benefits the region, Metro is pitching expensive features that have nothing to do with waste management, such as meeting spaces, parks, and education centers.
If Metro continues down this path, the new transfer station will have flair instead of function. Waste management debt will be used to fund unrelated goals, while regional improvements still beg for attention. Metro's systems planning manager says both of the current transfer stations in Portland and Oregon City are "at capacity" and "increasingly costly to operate." Metro should focus on improving waste management, not adding expensive extras. If the region really needs a new transfer station, there is no room for frills.
I'm Vlad Yurlov from Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon's free market think-tank. … See MoreSee Less
In the middle of a worldwide pandemic that has decimated local businesses, Portland is proposing millions of dollars in new taxes. Officials recently announced a new proposal called "Clean Air, Healthy Climate" that would impose two separate carbon taxes on large stationary emitters as early as this month. bit.ly/2MPCw2V … See MoreSee Less
Portland's toxic taxes will do little for clean air – Cascade Policy Institute
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