Bye ITAX

If you don't live in Mulnomah County you might not know about the "temporary" personal tax voters approved in 2003 to keep classrooms functioning normally while lawmakers searched for a permanent funding solution. Politicians had three years - apparently that wasn't enough time. So now, as we prepare to write the last of the ITAX checks, we hear rumors that another "temporary" (i.e., four-year) tax is being bandied about. Ugh. At least other people unhappy with having to pay the tax found creative ways to express their displeasure - writing oodles of $1.00 checks, paying in pennies and the like.