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’ll catch you up; the only objection that ever existed was that it was a regressive (flat tax with very low income threshold) and inefficient way to fund what almost no one disagreed needed more funding. It was always about the “how”.
Instead of listening to the actual concerns, anyone who questioned it was labeled anti-education, anti-art and/or other inaccurate labels by stupid people who couldn’t comprehend that there are some critical pieces of adult life past “picking you ‘side’ and agreeing with it no matter what.”
Zero surprise it was also incompetently distributed.
I’ll catch you up; the only objection that ever existed was that it was a regressive (flat tax with very low income threshold) and inefficient way to fund what almost no one disagreed needed more funding. It was always about the “how”.
Instead of listening to the actual concerns, anyone who questioned it was labeled anti-education, anti-art and/or other inaccurate labels by stupid people who couldn’t comprehend that there are some critical pieces of adult life past “picking you ‘side’ and agreeing with it no matter what.”
Zero surprise it was also incompetently distributed.