I remember back in the early 1980's when I worked near Seattle. I remember working with someone having a newer BMW. It had Oregon license plates. Because the parent company was in Oregon, he got away with Oregon plates. Today (before I 695) he wouldn't get away with it because there is an 800 number hotline to nark on people like that. I for one, buy everything I can (over $100) in Ore. to avoid the sales tax. Even though it costs more to drive the half an hour, I do it for principle. And in Seattle the tax is 8.6 %. I think they should give a hard look at taxes that encourage residents to look elsewhere for products and services. I've got relatives ready to leave the state because the cost of living makes it so they can't live here.

-- Sig Landoe (slandoe@bentonrea.com), November 19, 1999

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Good....Bye Sig.

-- (mkpow62@silverlink.net), November 19, 1999.

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."  Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)  English philosopher, essayist, statesman

That quote's for YOU, Mike.

-- (zowie@hotmail.com), November 19, 1999.

Sig

Your right.

I smoke cigars (a sin according to the state), which are taxed at 74.9% in this state.

I buy all of my cigars on the internet, no taxes. A box of Wavells at an in state cigar shop goes for $120 - $150. A box over the internet runs $57 - $68. Quess which one I buy?

When will this state learn that over taxing items is forcing the people to shop elsewhere.

Ed - smoked a Nat Sherman Telegragh maduro last night. great smoke

-- Ed (ed_bridges@yahoo.com), November 19, 1999.