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This would be hilarious if it wasn't completely accurate.
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Delusional Amerikans want all the public services available to them but don't want to pay a single red cent to have them, LOL.
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Well, too bad, you lost, you sure you don't want to whine for a few more paragraphs?
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@Randyzpdx: If the IA is correct (I'll have to look up the claim myself), you're OK with "Amerikans" giving 200 million dollars worth of pennies to be spent on roads, only to be spent on something else? By that logic, you would be OK with this gas tax being spent on parks? Would you be OK if this money was used to give the city council a pay raise? Where do you draw your line?

When the government asks for a tax to fund something, that something should be funded with that tax. See how this works? Seems to me that you are the delusional one here... just totally fine with paying for something that you may or may not get and saying, "meh, whatever man, it's just money".

And @ToddMecklem: No, sir... we all lost.
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stop spending money on foreign wars and there will be plenty of money to rebuild our education system and infrastructure, the federal military budget is what's sucking up all of our tax dollars, not the city of Portland.

If you don't like our system of city government, work to change it, it's an obsolete system that was banned in the south by the courts years ago.
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The Milwaukie Fred Meyer gas station is going to be super busy.
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@randyzpdx: You're totally skirting the question, so I'll ask it again: Are you OK with the city spending money on other projects that was supposed to be dedicated to repairing roads? Yes or no? It's an easy question... look, I'll give you my answer: No. If the city enacted a road tax to fix our roads and that money was not spent on roads, then the city comes back 30 years later to whine and complain and then ask for more money to fix our roads... that's mismanagement, man.

The citizens of Portland gave them money and the city wasted it. You're OK with that?

By the way, I did do a little digging and the IA is correct. Listen to OPB's Think Out Loud "Gas Tax" episode and you'll find that the opponent of this tax called out the city representative on this redirected money. The city guy? Like you, he didn't address the issue. The opponent asked it again and again, the city guy tip-toed around it. He didn't want to admit that the city's asking for a new tax to fix roads after they blew an old tax to fix roads on other shit.

But I guess you're OK with all this.
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It's called toll fee! Ask the drivers from WA to pay a fucking toll on any bridge that enters Portland. All the Best Buy employed truck drivers would find work elsewhere... or pay up.

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