Portland's new "CEO" tax

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  1. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    Goodbye Fortune 500 companies!

    http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/12/steve_novicks_ceo_tax_wins_clo.html

     
    EL PRESIDENTE, Dec 8, 2016
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    Novick said he also hopes the tax might discourage companies​

    Well done, fool.
     
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    blue32 Who wants a mustache ride?

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    Jesus fucking christ, what a travesty.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    I'm sure this will have exactly the effect intended.
     
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    What Fortune 500 companies? We have food carts and pot shops.
     
    SlyPokerDog, Dec 8, 2016
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    If a pot shop ever turns into a Fortune 500 company it will happen in dippity dooo Portland.

    These people are idiots.
     
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    Wow!

    Clackamas county will like this "progressive policymaking" by Portland.


    Who elects these master minds?
     
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    Jesus. I am so glad I don't live in Portland. What an absolute clusterfuck.

    If it's not rioting criminals looking for free shit, it's this nonsense. Shameful.
     
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    RipCityDSCPL, Dec 8, 2016
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    Because nothing says "Fairness" like taxing people unfairly.

    #LiberalLogic
     
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    Exactly, about what point did the word 'success' become a curse word in Portland?
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    If these CEOs are smart enough to run Fortune 500 companies, they're smart enough to move to the 'burbs where the tax won't exist. Problem solved......
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I don't think there actually are any Fortune 500 companies in Portland. If I remember correctly, Precision Castparts was the last one, and it got bought by Berkshire.

    barfo
     
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    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    To help the homeless situation? How about make it so schools don't drink lead flavored water?
     
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    Well, thanks to this law, there likely never will be.

    And doesn't Nike count? Or is it outside of Portland's limits?
     
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    So, you don't think the intended effect is to drive all of Portland companies with highly paid executives to Hillsboro and Clackamas County?
     
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    Unincorporated Washington County, and likely to stay that way.
     
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    I probably should have used green font. To use the currently popular term, why are some folks getting so butt hurt about a tax that will affect few if any taxpayers (and especially not those who are screaming the loudest)? Because they can? Because they're tired of gloating about Donny the Great and need something to bitch about? Go figure........
     
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  19. EL PRESIDENTE

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    Wouldn't it include retail stores, such as Apple, Fast Food restaurants as well as banks, hospitals, healthcare companies, insurance companies and financial institutions?
     
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    Read your own link, qualifying businesses will pay $100 to 250k more per year and it will raise $2.5 mill.

    So apparently there are 10 to 25 businesses this will apply to.
     
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