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Portland really shouldn’t cut corners on their bridges, what with the big ol’ river running through the middle of town.
I assume their answer to budget cuts would be to raise the Trimet fairs to cover it?
The answer is to finally start taxing the rich. Letting the upper class pay less and less in taxes since 1981 hasn’t helped anyone who isn’t IN the upper class.
We don’t need to let the bazillionaires blackmail us any longer. We can run this country without them, just by working together and running the economy democratically. No one needs to be sacrificed to greed any more.
Though I agree on raising taxes on the wealthy, I fail to see how that will help Tri-Met deal with the current budget problem.
And singing Kumbaya in a drum circle won’t help either.
The upper class have payed lower tax rates, but the top 10% contribute 45% of the tax revenue in the US as things are. (http://www.economist.com/node/21530093)
Closing loopholes and reforming health care (drug costs), war budgets, and housing/lending industry would help more than higher taxes for the rich. Cuts are going to happen as well. Health care for all, but otherwise being “Sacraficed for greed” is relative and is always going to happen to some extent. Vague but spirited doesn’t help much, here. And the right to assembly is good, but if you’re going to interrupt daily life for people and owners of companies, vilified though they may be, you’re pissing people off and facing coppers’ licensed powertrip wrath.