Posted on 01/19/2020 8:46:45 AM PST by nwrep
The goal is ensuring the green economy benefits folks who are hurt first and worst by global warming, says Oriana Magnera.
In just a few months, the city of Portland will begin investing the proceeds from a groundbreaking new tax on large companies.
No other city in the U.S. has such a tax.
The Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund, or PCEF, will raise as much as $60 million a year from a new tax on big retailers. The money is supposed to supply clean, efficient energy and jobs to people the city has long slighted.
The overarching goals: to provide members of underserved communities with valuable skills while insulating, caulking and tweaking inefficient heating and cooling systems and installing rooftop solar panels at the homes of low-income Portlanders.
The new tax, and the still-developing ideas for how to spend the money, signal a sea change in Portland politics.
At its core, the concept transfers wealth from big corporations such as Walmart to low-income Portlanders of color. It's a local version of the Green New Deal proposed in 2019 by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). It's also part of a larger political effort to reshape who calls the shotsand who benefitsin America's whitest big city.
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The goal is full blown Communism.
I regurgitate at the idea someone has failed these people.
Total B. S.
Who gives people this Fd in the head, power?
Didn’t Obama have the same intentions with the $787B “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009”?
“Invest in infrastructure, education, health, and renewable energy”
How’d that work out?
the concept transfers wealth from big corporations such as Walmart to low-income Portlanders of color.
“Portland is one of the whitest cities in America.”
Yes, so they can virtue-signal with short-term gestures.
Blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah. Gimme your money.
“Arms crossed in front of the chest This is one of the body language examples that indicate that one is being defensive. The body language meaning of crossed arms may also show disagreement with opinions and actions of other people with whom you are communicating.”
Could be both?
Oriana Magnera. Her again.
Ugly in 10 years. Hell she is coyote ugly right now. In ten years she will be two bag ugly.
Damn, now the Bidens will move to Portland to get their fair share.
But Washington is a BLUE state.
Communism has always been RED...
The MSM switched the colors because it was too apparent that the commie party was identified by red. If you look at old electoral maps of Reagans landslide, the states he won were blue.
Agreed, they are cutting their throats.
Three bag: One for her, one for you (in case hers falls off), and one for the poor dog watching.
Portland really was a beautiful place once. I was born and raised there (Wilson ‘72), but moved to Arizona in 1985. Now that all of my family has died or moved away, I doubt that I’ll ever visit Portland again.
at least her education shows she has
experience in energy, and economics, right?
Oriana Magnera - BA in Womens and Gender Studies
and Comparative Ethnic Studies
from Columbia University (home of Obola the Imposter)
Could be. I don’t think this body language interpretation is a hard science.
Over here in eastern WA, home of many Columbia and Snake River dams, it isn’t the Indians that give us much “damn” trouble, it is white liberals from Seattle and Olympia.
Portland, now, seems pretty mixed race to me. 50 years ago it didn’t.
Yeah, since it can be defensive and offensive at the same time.
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