As businesses exit Portland, Boys & Girls Club closes

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

In the heart of urban North Portland, the much-beloved Regence Boys-and-Girls Club is closing down for financial reasons. They are hit on both sides. Portland’s skyrocketing taxes (10 new ones in the last 8 years) and skyrocketing utility costs (due to environmental red tape) have made maintaining an organization and property unbearable. Additionally, their sponsors are hit hard by the same factors. Wonderful charities like Boys & Girls Club rely on businesses with surplus profits to fund local projects. The politicians stole those company profits for themselves. Many businesses have left. Local politicians use those jacked-up new taxes to pay for crack-pipe supplies for addicts, subsidize data centers, pay quarter-million golden quit packages for controversial city employees to leave, and unload millions of tax dollars on pot shops under economic development grants.