Posted on 01/19/2020 8:46:45 AM PST by nwrep
The goal is ensuring the green economy benefits folks who are hurt first and worst by global warming, says Oriana Magnera.
In just a few months, the city of Portland will begin investing the proceeds from a groundbreaking new tax on large companies.
No other city in the U.S. has such a tax.
The Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund, or PCEF, will raise as much as $60 million a year from a new tax on big retailers. The money is supposed to supply clean, efficient energy and jobs to people the city has long slighted.
The overarching goals: to provide members of underserved communities with valuable skills while insulating, caulking and tweaking inefficient heating and cooling systems and installing rooftop solar panels at the homes of low-income Portlanders.
The new tax, and the still-developing ideas for how to spend the money, signal a sea change in Portland politics.
At its core, the concept transfers wealth from big corporations such as Walmart to low-income Portlanders of color. It's a local version of the Green New Deal proposed in 2019 by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). It's also part of a larger political effort to reshape who calls the shotsand who benefitsin America's whitest big city.
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duck tape will seal up these quacks...
“In tandem with lowering taxes is to cut any wasteful and unnecessary spending”
Too subjective, don’t you think? And they have been talking about doing this for decades.
Enforce Article 1 Section 8. No federal department of education, labor, etc. Phase out social security and Medicare etc. Keep promises to current retirees, but starting now, anyone under 50 gets private insurance and retirement acct.
Problem is, this will never happen until we stop having our children (future voters) enrolled in government schools.
And then what magic will occur to make these new 'valuable skills' possessors to actually DO any work; considering how much money they NOW get by NOT working?
Orangutang........looks like an Orangutang escaped from the Portland zoo.
The left has gone from taxation to outright extortion now.
[[[Instead, PCEF projects can focus more on less easily measured health and climate benefits.]]]
Translation- We can rob the hell out of it with no accountability.
Since when has the government been in the business of creating jobs???? Dont say The New Deal or the military..... My Lord, are the lefties ever so crafty with ways how to steal your money!
Portland is where you move when you discover Berkeley is too conservative.
Thinking the same thing— what a mean looking chickie pooh. That face will age, because of the stress lines of maintaining this “look” as opposed to smiling. It takes fewer muscles in the face to smile and maintain a pleasant demeanor. More muscles involved in maintain the tension on the face.
Aging into, in a very short 10-15 years a “Helen Thomas” permanently grim face set. Right now she thinks she has a set of testicles, and is a man hater.
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