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    We Can’t Afford Metro’s Affordable Housing

    by Randal O’Toole Affordable housing projects funded with Metro’s 2018 housing bond have wasted more than a billion dollars due to bad decisions made by Metro on how to spend that money. Metro’s single-minded focus on increasing the population density of the Portland urban area led it to mostly fund projects that are three to […]

    Do you enjoy Catalyst? Watchdog? Gas tax win? (kindly support us)

    By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com   If you appreciate …   • Historic gas tax victory (saved you $400 yearly) • Oregon Catalyst (1 million views annually) • Oregon Watchdog (25 years ad-free, paywall free) • Non-stop Kotek political cartoons    Then please consider a donation.   It took a lot of money to […]

    Economist dissects Kotek’s Prosperity plan

    If Oregon adopted every Prosperity Council recommendation, would a growing employer finally choose the state? By Economist Dr. Eric Fruits, See his Oregon Ledger podcast   When Oregon Governor Tina Kotek rolled out her Prosperity Roadmap, I wrote that it misdiagnosed the problem: The Roadmap misdiagnoses the state’s crisis by treating structural pathologies—rooted in high […]

    (your taxes) Homeless discard new, unopened tents from County

    By NW Spotlight, Independent journalist and homeless advocate Kevin Dahlgren shows a video of one homeless camp where new tents and tarps were unstopped.  View the post below, then follow Dahlgren and financially support him. Tents, tarps, harm reduction and lots and lots of sandwiches all funded by the county. That is not the permanent […]

    World Cup fans (part 4): Americans don’t know how lucky they are

    By Jason Williams,  Oregon 250.com, celebrating America’s 250th Founder of Taxpayers Association Oregon As World Cup fans around the world come to America to watch the games, they are leaving behind messages online on how much they appreciate our country. This woman from Britain has been to 27 other countries and can see first hand […]