They’re struggling because City Hall has failed at the basics: public safety, reasonable taxation, reliable infrastructure, functional schools and a business environment where employers actually want to invest.

Portland’s small businesses aren’t struggling because billionaires somewhere else supposedly aren’t paying their “fair share.”

They’re struggling because City Hall has failed at the basics: public safety, reasonable taxation, reliable infrastructure, functional schools and a business environment where employers actually want to invest.

Blaming Portland’s failures on billionaires who don’t even live in Oregon is political theater designed to distract from City Hall’s own record.

You cannot tax your way out of incompetence. You cannot legislate your way out of disorder. And you certainly cannot punish the employers and investors who still have the option to take their capital, jobs and businesses elsewhere.

Keep driving away the people who create, invest and employ, and eventually there will be fewer people left to tax.

That isn’t economic development. It’s economic self-sabotage dressed up as DSA ideology.

Mitch Green, Jamie Dunphy and the rest of the Peacocks are zero real life existence in starting or running a private sector company. They are pushing DSA communist policies that will accelerate Portlands doom loop.

JustinMill8ucr mitch4portland jamiedunphy</p>&mdash; Portland Moderate. (pdxmoderate) October 8, 2026