mitchgreen.bsky.social
Portland City Councilor, District 4 and candidate for re-election. https://mitch4portland.com
👤 Joined on 26 January 2024
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@mitchgreen.bsky.socialjoin us this saturday at noon for our next Multnomah County WFP slate canvass! 💜 Mitch Green — Portland District 4 🧡 Shannon Singleton — MultCo Chair 💜 Joe Hagedorn — MultCo Judge Pos. 14 🧡 Diane Sykes — MultCo Judge Pos. 2 💜 Your Two Cents — Portland ballot measure 🔗 rsvp @ link in bio ;)
Show PostToday, the Fair Share Tax returns to the Committee of the Whole. We face a simple decision: keep the financial burden on working people and small businesses, or require large corporations with significant CEO pay gaps that have benefited from the Trump tax cuts to contribute their fair share.
Show PostDonald Trump slashed taxes to make corporations and shareholders richer. Let's put that in perspective. If every major U.S city raised $88 M per year from these corporations (like our proposed Fair Share Tax), it would only be 2.4% of their Trump tax savings. Corporate wealth is still immense.
Show PostEvery time this happens there are calls to avoid “politicizing” these tragedies. But these tragedies are avoidable and only happen because our politics facilitates them through inaction. I’m mad. We should all be mad and demand better of our electeds.
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