Maintain the position

I see that they're going to get the Portland area's dopey electorate to extend the regional income tax "for the homeless." 

Metro Council President Lynn Peterson on Friday outlined her priorities for a ballot measure that would overhaul a tax on high-income earners passed by voters in 2020 to fund homeless services and get people re-housed or kept in housing....

Under Peterson's priorities for a new ballot measure, the SHS [Supportive Housing Services] program would also be extended from 2030 to 2050....

And now the money will be spent on... wait for it... more cr-apartments!

Another major priority for Peterson is to make affordable housing development a valid expense for SHS funds. Since 2018, the Metro Housing Bond has bankrolled efforts to develop affordable housing in the Portland metro areas. But with those funds nearly all spent and with voters still paying off the bond until 2038, there's no dedicated source of funding for affordable housing projects going forward. Peterson has advocated for dipping into the SHS funds instead.

The tax has raised around a billion dollars in four years' time, and just look at the streets of Portland. It's going so well, let's keep it up!

It must make the socialist politicians in town feel great to be chasing all the money out. With every wealthy person who runs away to live in Camas, the less of a failure the bobbleheads seem by comparison to who's left. It's all relative.

UPDATE, 4:00 p.m.: A link to this post was just removed from Threads because "nudity." It's an interesting country.