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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: PCC Wants More of Your Tax Dollars to Spend Its Way out of a Slump
Description: Full Text: The ballot for November’s election is filling up, and a lot of local governments are trying to reach into your pocket for more of your tax dollars. Some of them are real doozies, like Portland Community College’s construction bond measure.
In 2017, PCC voters approved $185 million in new property taxes for construction projects. In that Voters’ Pamphlet, PCC boasted it had 78,000 students.
Five years later, PCC now wants another $485 million of your money. In this year’s Voters’ Pamphlet, PCC reports it has only 50,000 students. In just five years, PCC has lost 28,000 students...