Portland City Council's president will soon propose reforming the city’s Arts Tax, which funds school arts teachers and nonprofit arts organizations. Smaller arts groups may lose out.
I know someone who lives in unincorporated area between Milwaukie and PDX, and the arts tax still came for them. It’s such a backwards, makeshift, flat tax that I was begrudgingly fine with, but then to learn it wasn’t getting used and just sat there was so frustrating to learn.
Yet another sadly-valid talking point for the right to throw back to the left about inept government alongside their invalid talking point so they can make arguments for privatization.
I know someone who lives in unincorporated area between Milwaukie and PDX, and the arts tax still came for them. It’s such a backwards, makeshift, flat tax that I was begrudgingly fine with, but then to learn it wasn’t getting used and just sat there was so frustrating to learn.
I mean at least it wasn’t going into someone’s pockets like some other guy who robbed us recently? But still, eesh.
Yet another sadly-valid talking point for the right to throw back to the left about inept government alongside their invalid talking point so they can make arguments for privatization.