purposed registration tax

husker · 01-30-2008, 06:09 PM

what do u all think of the 24 tax being purposed by multnomah county

to pay for the sellwood bridge?

JCJ · 01-30-2008, 07:08 PM

Multnomah County and Portland always have got their hands in my pocket at all times.Maybe if they stop running businesses away with their nonsense then they would need less money from me for bridges.

Dave G · 01-30-2008, 08:21 PM

keeping up with their motto..keep Portland Weird....they are, running businesses away and taxing you to death for bridges.

johndeeregreen · 01-30-2008, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JCJ

Multnomah County and Portland always have got their hands in my pocket at all times.Maybe if they stop running businesses away with their nonsense then they would need less money from me for bridges.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave G

keeping up with their motto..keep Portland Weird....they are, running businesses away and taxing you to death for bridges.

Hare's Ear · 01-30-2008, 08:42 PM

What's a "24 Tax"?

matttheduck · 01-30-2008, 10:37 PM

$24 a year in additional vehicle registration fees.

Kootenay · 01-31-2008, 05:07 AM

Taxes, we don't need no stinking TAXES

Queeg · 01-31-2008, 09:07 AM

p-r-o-p-o-s-e-d

Lou · 01-31-2008, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Dave G

keeping up with their motto..keep Portland Weird....they are, running businesses away and taxing you to death for bridges.

I glad I don't live in MC any more! Now the affects of folks
leaving is falling on those who choose to live there.
I can't remember, the last time, when I was in MC.
I did go thru it to go to the allocation meeting in
Vancouver, I guess that would count
Proposed or not, they have a funding problem like
many cities do but taxes is the easy out---jobs
business.

dolphinmarty · 01-31-2008, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by JCJ

Multnomah County and Portland always have got their hands in my pocket at all times.Maybe if they stop running businesses away with their nonsense then they would need less money from me for bridges.

You have to think like Multnomah County. We need to decrease bridge traffic to extend the life. So if we run away businesses people won't have jobs to drive too. Maybe they'll even move away. Yeah that's the ticket!!

CATCH AND EAT · 01-31-2008, 11:32 AM

Here's an idea. Turn the sellwood Bridge into a bicycle only bridge then you don't have to worry about it.

If there is a tax there is a way in Multnomah county. Our county commissioners are so smart.

namu mac · 01-31-2008, 06:22 PM

Make it a toll bridge. If you use it you pay. Tax bicycles for their share of the road use.
No doubt new bridge construction will mess up a good spring fishing spot.

Springer43 · 01-31-2008, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by namu mac

No doubt new bridge construction will mess up a good spring fishing spot.

Better not or there will be hell to pay.

BCF · 02-01-2008, 03:30 AM

Do it the "Federal Way", borrow from the trillion dollar deficient and give everyone in the country a $500.00 dollar check and call it an "economic shot in the arm".

Then we can all pay pack the $500 plus the interest. Probably only cost me a couple grand in the end.

You guys are to much. Find another route around Portland and stay out of Multnomah County, or pony up the bucks and re-build the infrastructure.

BCF

uhmw · 02-01-2008, 06:35 AM

I drive over that rickity bridge all the time. Sometimes I drive over it pullin a load delivering to the eastsiders. Sometimes that rout is the best way to cope with rush hr traffic. Quit building more crime trains ,doctor trams and trendy neighborhoods so you can fix the darn bridge everybody uses beforfor it falls into one of the best early springer holes on the river for gosh sakes. Its one of the oldest bridges or the first made however you want to look at it. The last thing we need to do is shut it down to heavy traffic. How the heck will all the fans get to the blazer games???

husker · 02-01-2008, 07:17 AM

i think i it should be a toll bridge.....if u use it u pay for it......i am sure people from all over would use it at some point. i know i live in wash county and think that multnomah shouldnt be the only 1 to pay......

i also agree that the local gov and fed have there heads up there rear .....but nobody ever listens to me...