XPost: or.politics, or.general   
   From: Scratch@Tigard.OR.com   
      
   David Loftus wrote:   
   > Larry (Scratch) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Everyone is well aware that Portland is NOT business friendly.   
   >   
   >   
   > I suspect this is the biggest, most popular myth in the city,   
      
   Not a myth. Sorry. I work with the public.  Not two long ago I was   
   working with a client who was looking to relocate his trucking business   
   in Washington and the trucking business was native to Oregon and he was   
   second generation he called it the Katz factor. He hated doing it but   
   said he cold no longer afford to run his business in Oregon and did   
   offer his current employees to come with him if they wanted to. I have   
   had people in my business tell me more then once they would not start or   
   transfer their business to this area. My builder fired 30 employees two   
   years ago do to all the bullshit the state/city was making him go   
   through for having his own framers. Sorry to bust your precious bubble.   
      
      
     and that   
   > the business community spends plenty of money, as well as whines to the   
   > press, to keep it alive.   
   >   
   > What I see is how often, and how much, the City Council and the rest of   
   > the municipal government, rolls over and plays dead whenever businesses   
   > pull out this canard in order to get their way.   
      
   Aaa..., yeah, right!   
      
   >   
   > I think the truth of the matter depends more on who you are, and what   
   > your business happens to be.   
      
   Well that could be. I notice there are more adult toy shops going up in   
   Washington county then there use to be. Course they don't do a whole lot   
   of hiring either. By the way, where are the taxes greatest and why,   
   Washington county, or Multnomah?   
      
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   > David Loftus   
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