also should go without saying but this article's equating of people leaving a place because of, among other things, proposed tolls on highways with people leaving because their family was under direct threat by the state is wildly offensive www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/u...
*PROPOSED* tolls! Not even actual tolls that exist and actually cost money🤬
Does the article interrogate the idea that they cut the police?
It's because the owners & editors of the Times quite literally view the idea of increased taxes as far more of a "real" danger than any *ACTUAL* threat to a child's health or wellbeing- especially if that child is trans, a category of people the Times has explicitly shown contempt for
The thing that drives me crazy is that these people are outraged about something that did not happen. They didn’t cut your precious police buddy. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
The debate about public safety spending has also shifted for departments from New York City to Los Angeles. They are seeing their finances partially restored in response to rising homicides, an office...
nyt= historically bad but def doubling down in recent years. tragic how much clout it manages to keep despite all the explicit bigotry.
Weird that the national press constantly reports on how Portland "defunded the police" and that's why the city is so dysfunctional without ever discussing how the Portland Police have been on a work slowdown in order to magnify quality of life issues and get their funding restored.
Citation needed on the idea that the city of Portland has *tripled* its property tax rates within a few years. That is a huge claim!
I don't have a times sub and idk where these ppl moved to but if I'm getting the gist of this from these couple skeets.... is this about a family who were forced to move from one county in oregon to another county in oregon to save 0.2% on their property taxes?
I know that's not the intent of that quote; but it's kind of ticklish how conservatives justify White Flight out of neighborhoods using tolling of public highways merely because the funds are used to help "bad" people. I suppose that if the tolls went straight to the cops, it would be OK, right?
It's going to be fun when they realize they'll end up paying more in sales tax in Missouri than they ever would in tolls in Oregon.