Portland City Council votes to sue President Trump over policy on sanctuary cities
Only on the Left Coast. Let's see, they claim it is against the 10th amendment to force cities and states to do the Feds bidding. Then why would it be the Feds requirement to give them money, especially when the money is to PAY for them to do the Feds bidding? Most of the money in question is tied to funding anti terrorism (where they are required to cooperate with federal officials) . I would be fine if they just gave them no money and let them be sanctuary cities, and see how long their "principled" stand lasts. But they want their "principles" and all the money, and the Feds can go sitck it. I don't think it will work that way, but of course, they will find all the "left" judges they need to get it their way, so it will end up in SCOTUS in a few years...By then a Democrat will be back in charge and we will be going back down the drain...
On the bright side...I've met a few teachers who are really getting jack of they system and looking around for alternatives to forced status quo. They are even seriously considering foregoing the fed subsidies for their autonomy. It's happening, it's just a lot slower here than other places because of the wayyyyy lopsided political views west of the I-5 corridor. So change is happening even in Portlandia.
This shows that "we be landless" west of the Rockies http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/291-... The BLM owns well over half of eastern Oregon. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/up...
So you see, the sit-com Portlandia you see in the media may appear more free that in real life. Bureaucrats changed the state statues to exclude the word "navigable" which limited state jurisdiction over water. The state authorities now have jurisdiction over a every birdbath and every drop of rain that runs off your roof.
State bureaucrats having their hand out at the federal level is the LEAST of our problems here in Oregon, oh trust me.
Of the 1.4 million in 2015, 95% of it went to the Opera, the Symphony, the Art Museum and the Ballet (smallest amount to the Ballet of course). Since they are already well and truly funded, this was really gilding the lily in Portland (since all these STATE facilities are housed in Portland...not Eugene or Bend).
So, it's a tax to subsidize a TINY segment of the population's obsession with totally NON-self-supporting arts.
Needless to say, we neither patronize nor promote taxpayer funded entertainment....including "Concerts in the Park", "Movies and Swim Night", "Get Your Free Energy Audit Here" or any of the other bazillion tax funded "fun" things to get and do in Oregon.
On the good side, we do have "The Magic Kingdom" which was built and is run as a private family business with nary a dollar in loan and ZERO tax dollars. They went so far as to write their own music so they don't even pay copyright fees...clever hey?
Check them out http://www.enchantedforest.com/.
To me it seems like a natural consequence of taxing people's income, sending it to DC, and then having DC send it back to local gov'ts that do what the Fed Gov't wants. States already tax their citizens to fund officers whose purposes it is to help people apply for federal grants. Of course this system leads to issues of morality.