Bogus! Traffic...

[JfizzleBlazer]

And I never said I was bitching about paying Oregon taxes, that's fine. My issue is when tax time comes around, why do I get only 2% of the total I paid in a refund check? The government doesn't keep 98% of the taxes I pay them? Also this is the very first time I have commented on paying Oregon taxes ever.

How is that an issue? You pay taxes yo Oregon because YOU chose to work in Oregon.

 

[barfo]

Exactly. If Oregon had better leadership they wouldn't have to resort to using tolls to pay for funding to improve the state.

Disagree - if we had better leadership we would have had tolls years ago. Same as the hotel tax - it taxes people from out of state.

barfo

 

[barfo]

My issue is when tax time comes around, why do I get only 2% of the total I paid in a refund check?

Not sure what you mean, but you should actually be mad that you get as much as 2% back. It means you overpaid.

barfo

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

So if you don't either live in Oregon or were born there, we don't want you here. Why don't you just say what you want to say?

'Go back to where you came from and stay out of our Country'(State)

And if you all are that serious about making Oregon a Members Only State you could always build a wall around the border.

As @JFizzleRaider says, some of the anti Cali stuff is kidding.......but for older natives like me, who have watched the Portland area degrade into the clusterfuck it has become, we see a lot of truth in the idea that newcomers in general (but Californians in particular) can be a pestilence. Californians who move up here whine about how they did so because California has gotten so bad and they made the move because Oregon is such a great and beautiful place. But after they have been here awhile, they start bitching about literally everything (traffic, parking, house prices....all the things their presence has been largely responsible for) and start yapping about how much better California is/was. They cry bitter tears over the weather (anyone who moves here and is unaware that it rains a tad bit is a fucking idiot) or that they can't pump their own gas. My wife's sister and husband moved here (Vancouver) 3 years ago after 40+ years in San Francisco because they couldn't handle the shit hole SF had become. Yet the bro in law (a Bay Area native) complains constantly about the move. All these pilgrims want to do is turn Oregon (and Washington) into California. Fuck 'em all, big and small. I love my state and have no patience with people who are too clueless to appreciate it. Californians go home!!!

 

[Natebishop3]

People in Vancouver have been dodging taxes for decades.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

People in Vancouver have been dodging taxes for decades.

There has to be some benefit to living in Vantucky. Give those poor hillbillies a break.

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

Not sure what you mean, but you should actually be mad that you get as much as 2% back. It means you overpaid.

barfo

Okay. Now we are getting somewhere. Are you saying I shouldn't expect a refund from the State of Oregon ever when I file my taxes next year?

If the answer is yes, why? and why do my co workers who live in Oregon get refund checks from the state and much more than 2% too?

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Okay. Now we are getting somewhere. Are you saying I shouldn't expect a refund from the State of Oregon ever when I file my taxes next year?

If the answer yes, why? and why do my co workers who live in Oregon get refund checks from the state and much more than 2% too?

Dude. It's from a tax return. There are variables. Like how much money you make. Like if you itemize deductions. How many kids you have. How much you have withheld. How much you are lying on your return.

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

Dude. It's from a tax return. There are variables. Like how much money you make. Like if you itemize deductions. How many kids you have. How much you have withheld. How much you are lying on your return.

Yes. Tax return. That is what I have been talking about and until now no one has given me a solid answer as to why the State of Oregon takes nearly $3000(give or take) from my yearly income and when April 15th comes around why they keep all of it.

Thank you

 

[PDXFonz]

How do you fix the problem? Build a wall around the state?

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Yes. Tax return. That is what I have been talking about and until now no one has given me a solid answer as to why the State of Oregon takes nearly $3000(give or take) from my yearly income and when April 15th comes around why they keep all of it.

Thank you

Because YOU chose to work in Oregon.

 

[Natebishop3]

How do you fix the problem? Build a wall around the state?

Just tear down the bridges. Most of them probably can't swim

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

Because YOU chose to work in Oregon.

You know what, whatever. I am done with this bullshit. My neighbors get refund checks from Oregon, my co workers get refund checks from Oregon, everyone I have ever spoken to who lives in Washington and work in Oregon get refund checks from Oregon and I get fucked over every year. So its not just because I CHOOSE to work in Oregon.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

You know what, whatever. I am done with this bullshit. My neighbors get refund checks from Oregon, my co workers get refund checks from Oregon, everyone I have ever spoken to who lives in Washington and work in Oregon get refund checks from Oregon and Iget fucked So its not just because I CHOOSE to work in Oregon

Yes. Oregon chose you for some conspiracy theory reason to fuck over.

It's called a tax return dude. I can't tell you why unless I saw your tax returns. There are a ton of variables that come into play on a tax return.

Finding a job in Vancouver would solve your problems.

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

Moving on....... If Oregon actually goes through with this toll bullshit and makes people from Washington pay to cross the damn bridge, Jantzen Beach will be the first to die because there will MANY people who live in Washington who will refuse to buy anything in Oregon and all those businesses will go out of business because Oregon residents will not be enough to support them. You have NO CLUE how much revenue us 'Vantuckians' bring in for your state. That goes away if the tolls go up.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Hope you're paying your use tax when you buy shit in Oregon and take it back to Washington.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

You know what, whatever. I am done with this bullshit. My neighbors get refund checks from Oregon, my co workers get refund checks from Oregon, everyone I have ever spoken to who lives in Washington and work in Oregon get refund checks from Oregon and I get fucked over every year. So its not just because I CHOOSE to work in Oregon.

Talk to friends and family and find a good tax guy.

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

Hope you're paying your use tax when you buy shit in Oregon and take it back to Washington.

I was talking in generalities but of course you have to personalize it. BIG SURPRISE.

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

Talk to friends and family and find a good tax guy.

Thank you for the advice.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Moving on....... If Oregon actually goes through with this toll bullshit and makes people from Washington pay to cross the damn bridge, Jantzen Beach will be the first to die because there will MANY people who live in Washington who will refuse to buy anything in Oregon and all those businesses will go out of business because Oregon residents will not be enough to support them. You have NO CLUE how much revenue us 'Vantuckians' bring in for your state. That goes away if the tolls go up.

Talk to Jamie Herrera Butler what's her name. This toll program on federal highways is a new idea from the Trump administration. There are no tolls on I-5. This would be the first. This is a very bad precedent to set. Yes the interstate bridge had tolls on it when it was originally built but that was before it was part of I-5. That Herrera Butler is a republican but is against this. The more people that speak out the more she'll fight against it.

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

Talk to Jamie Herrera Butler what's her name. This toll program on federal highways is a new idea from the Trump administration. There are no tolls on I-5. This would be the first. This is a very bad precedent to set. Yes the interstate bridge had tolls on it when it was originally built but that was before it was part of I-5. That Herrera Butler is a republican but is against this. The more people that speak out the more she'll fight against it.

Oh, I have but again, thanks.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Moving on....... If Oregon actually goes through with this toll bullshit and makes people from Washington pay to cross the damn bridge, Jantzen Beach will be the first to die because there will MANY people who live in Washington who will refuse to buy anything in Oregon and all those businesses will go out of business because Oregon residents will not be enough to support them. You have NO CLUE how much revenue us 'Vantuckians' bring in for your state. That goes away if the tolls go up.

Also I doubt Oregon will be able to place tolls on the actual bridge. Even with an auto pass program they'll still require some toll booths and there is no room for those on the Oregon side around Jantzen Beach. My guess is they'll put the toll booths after the Expo center so Vancouver residents will have the option of parking there and taking the Max to the downtown core.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Oh, I have but again, thanks.

Get friends and family to call her office.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Also I doubt Oregon will be able to place tolls on the actual bridge. Even with an auto pass program they'll still require some toll booths and there is no room for those on the Oregon side around Jantzen Beach. My guess is they'll put the toll booths after the Expo center so Vancouver residents will have the option of parking there and taking the Max to the downtown core.

Traffic would be helped out if Vancouver would get a max line out there.

Assholes clog two lanes trying to merge at the last second on i84 to i205.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Traffic would be helped out if Vancouver would get a max line out there.

Assholes clog two lanes trying to merge at the last second on i84 to i205.

We were the assholes for trying to force the new interstate bridge with only a Max option. We spent $175 million on nothing. They don't want Max and we acted like we knew what was best for them. We could be halfway down with a new bridge by now but no.... we had to force Max up Vancouver's ass.

Dumb.

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

Get friends and family to call her office.

Most of my family and friends/ neighbors have called.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Most of my family and friends/ neighbors have called.

Send her mini-cupcakes. Everyone likes mini-cupcakes.

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

Traffic would be helped out if Vancouver would get a max line out there.

Assholes clog two lanes trying to merge at the last second on i84 to i205.

That is something we both agree with. I would love for the Max to go into Vancouver.

#commonground

 

[barfo]

We were the assholes for trying to force the new interstate bridge with only a Max option. We spent $175 million on nothing. They don't want Max and we acted like we knew what was best for them. We could be halfway down with a new bride by now but no.... we had to force Max up Vancouver's ass.

Dumb.

Well, actually it turns out we did know what's best for them. Wouldn't a new bridge with a max line have been better than no new bridge, which is what they've got now?

If Vancouver wants a new bridge they can pay for it themselves, that's my position now. I don't want a new bridge, and I'll be doing what I can to make sure that any new bridge proposal doesn't get funded by Oregon.

barfo

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Well, actually it turns out we did know what's best for them. Wouldn't a new bridge with a max line have been better than no new bridge, which is what they've got now?

If Vancouver wants a new bridge they can pay for it themselves, that's my position now. I don't want a new bridge, and I'll be doing what I can to make sure that any new bridge proposal doesn't get funded by Oregon.

barfo

If we would have offered what they asked for which is a new bridge with no Max they would have agreed to split the cost.