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[Rocket Man]

The state needs to get a piece of the pie too!
In MA, we would still have to pay the state sales tax of 6.25% when we try to register it.

About a month later, we get an Excise tax (a use tax bill based on the value).
$25 per $1k (2.5%)...
First bill is small, because it is for the months left in the current year.
In January, we get whacked again for the next 12 months.

All that, and our roads and bridges are still in rough shape!

We don’t have either of those taxes here but our roads are terrible for sure.

 

[mountie]

The state needs to get a piece of the pie too!
In MA, we would still have to pay the state sales tax of 6.25% when we try to register it.

About a month later, we get an Excise tax (a use tax bill based on the value).
$25 per $1k (2.5%)...
First bill is small, because it is for the months left in the current year.
In January, we get whacked again for the next 12 months.

All that, and our roads and bridges are still in rough shape!

X 10 if you are in California, including the additional 'Guzzler Tax', 'Luxury Tax', 'Smog Check', 'Registration is through the roof, etc, etc.....
And the roads & sidewalks are crap, since they 'earmark' the fees to social programs.

 

[Doubeleive]

I just got a notice that my $16k bid has been passed for $16,250.00 by a bidder that I saw before. He is serious about this. I will now wait and see how the end of this auction goes. The bid increments are at $250 at a time.

the secret to "online" bidding is to wait until the last few seconds to place any bid period, then just bid your max amount, otherwise all you are doing is driving the price up along the way. you just watch it and if the bidding is already over what you are willing to pay before it ends then so be it.

 

[MassHoe04]

We don’t have either of those taxes here but our roads are terrible for sure.

OR is on my bucket list! My great-uncle was a professional fishing guide on the Rogue River, fishing from land and running multi-day drift boat trips from Grants Pass to the Pacific.
I would love to see (and try to fish) that area of the country someday!

 

[mountie]

OR is on my bucket list! My great-uncle was a professional fishing guide on the Rogue River, fishing from land and running multi-day drift boat trips from Grants Pass to the Pacific.
I would love to see (and try to fish) that area of the country someday!

Years ago I spent a week in Coos Bay, Oregon..... Talk about going back in time as a fishing village.

 

[Rocket Man]

OR is on my bucket list! My great-uncle was a professional fishing guide on the Rogue River, fishing from land and running multi-day drift boat trips from Grants Pass to the Pacific.
I would love to see (and try to fish) that area of the country someday!

The Rogue is an awesome river in a state with a lot of whitewater rivers. There’s a jetboat tour on it that’s quite a wild ride. Prepare to get wet.

Years ago I spent a week in Coos Bay, Oregon..... Talk about going back in time as a fishing village.

Our entire coastline is a trip. It’s a whole other world over there, including it’s weather. With the coast range there, it can be 90 or 100 in Portland in the summer and with a 1 1/2 hour drive to the coast it’s usually maybe 70 tops. All the towns feel like you went back 30 or 40 years in time.

 

[mountie]

A friend ran a tree farm 5 miles from Coos Bay.... Farm owner just repaved the property roads....
Talk about your personal road race track!!!

 

[TollKeeper]

The state needs to get a piece of the pie too!
In MA, we would still have to pay the state sales tax of 6.25% when we try to register it.

About a month later, we get an Excise tax (a use tax bill based on the value).
$25 per $1k (2.5%)...
First bill is small, because it is for the months left in the current year.
In January, we get whacked again for the next 12 months.

All that, and our roads and bridges are still in rough shape!

Here in Colorado, you would actually have to pay a tax on the 5% premium that got charged.

We dont have those other fees. They sure try to make up for it on the sales tax.

 

[Doubeleive]

OR is on my bucket list! My great-uncle was a professional fishing guide on the Rogue River, fishing from land and running multi-day drift boat trips from Grants Pass to the Pacific.
I would love to see (and try to fish) that area of the country someday!

I fished the Rogue river for almost 20 years on a almost daily basis, then left and went back years later, the river is now infested with bottom feeders (sucker fish), more polluted than it ever was, sad....... it used to be great so many salmon you could almost walk across them

 

[Rocket Man]

I fished the Rogue river for almost 20 years on a almost daily basis, then left and went back years later, the river is now infested with bottom feeders (sucker fish), more polluted than it ever was, sad....... it used to be great so many salmon you could almost walk across them

I haven’t been down there in a long time. I never was a fisherman but the wildlife on that river was awesome. I’m sure pretty much every place has gone downhill though. They just started requiring a daily permit to drive through the Columbia Gorge scenic waterfall area because it got so crowded, along with a lot of hiking trails close to Portland. Our population here has exploded in the last decade, and most of the newbies are from out of state. I won’t say where most of them seem to be coming from *ahem* but they don’t seem to have the same pack-it-in-pack-it-out attitude as native Oregonians so of course the trails look trashed now. I can’t believe people will hike for miles through the wilderness and just throw their trash out in the beautiful scenery. Who do they expect will pick that up?