When you force min wage into the mix, Covid and prices that just stayed above 30% or more. Increase rent, increase taxes.
In a perfect world.....our worlds not perfect and either are humans! People that made bad decisions, choose to live on the street and do drugs and drink instead of taking care of their responsibilities and working for a living, shouldn't be getting food or shelter on the tax payers dime.
It's not that simple. Farmers have logistics to consider when determining how to handle their product. It costs them money to harvest and process their crop, to package it, to ship it, and there needs to be some entity on the receiving end to distribute it. So what you are describing is farmers paying to harvest a product that they will never be compensated for. That's the same as doing your job for free and then paying your employer for the privilege.
$90 a month?
Dump it in the front yard of those who vote for $90 per month charges.
90 dollars isn't bad compared to what they want where I live....I save mine in a trailer and go once a month to the dump
I worked on the vehicles of a reconstruction plastic surgeon who drove a tank of a Cadillac and a Suburban on the weekends.
I don't care how many safety improvements there have been, you're dead meat in a "smart car." Whenever I see a "smart car" on the highway, I can't help but think, "You idiot."
Smart car, dumb driver.
Sadly it depends on the local jurisdiction. When we last lived in the city here ours was over $90 a month. We did have the option to take almost anything to the transfer station for very cheap but, it was because it was subsidized with our taxes. Out here in the county its quite pricey. Last time a Fridge died they wanted something like a C note to take it in. My solution was to used a saw to cut it in small pieces and in the dumpster it went a little at a time. Carpet is one that's bad here. VERY pricey to legally toss. So a lot of it ends up dumped sadly. The problem here is the stuff they can't recycle they haul over the pass to the eastern part of the state now. So of course this makes it pricey to get rid of. Still no excuse to dump it in the wild but, this problem is made by gov.
www.koin.com
Words to live by if you want to live long.
To be fair, we subsidized the drug companies responsible for many of these addictions. We also cut treatment centers and shut down the state mental homes under Reagan. Reagan was an idiot if he thought that there would be no blowback from defunding mental health. Most of these folks are self medicating and have some really big mental health issues. It is silly to expect someone who does not have an accurate grasp of reality to get a job and work when they are not living in the same world the majority of us are.
Wage theft is the most common form of theft in the USA. Its also one of the least enforced.
Drugs and drinking are a choice....I agree we need more nut house's
I think you are going to fit right in with the PSU/Portland culture.
According to the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries , wage theft is around $1.5 million per year over the last 8 years (that include penalties which the employers were ordered to pay, but let's ignore that for the time being). Per capita income in Oregon in 2022 was $41,805. Oregon population in 2022 was estimated at 4,239,379.
