Oregon Budget Buster
Don D
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There are many things I know nothing about and state reciprocity tax procedures is one of them. We manufacture products and sell them in 44 countries, including Oregon. Our sales in Oregon amount to all of .02 percent of total annual sales. The state of Oregon had two, count them two, state employee auditors here for two, count them two whole days this week pouring over our sales figures to be sure we had sent the collected Oregon tax money properly to them. This cannot be a wise use of state moneys. It was determined that we do owe them a little less than a hundred bucks over the entire period covered by the audit. That was due to variances in tax amounts. What do you reckon those two round trip tickets cost with lodging and meals and comp time? No I didn't offer them a fried turkey.
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Seriously, RT tickets to Birmingham (nonrefundable) were in the $700+ range just a week or so ago when I checked - now over $1000 RT, so I would imagine MS isn't much different (probably more, depending on where you fly into).
However, the sad thing is that Oregon narrowly missed having to cut 24 days from our school schedule this year due to budget cuts, funding shortfalls, etc. (anyone who had seen Doonsbury over the last couple of weeks knows) and we've got a couple of state clowns traipsing around the country holding up businesses for less than a hundred bucks????? xx(
I knew Texas used to be another country and I knew that a lot of folks on the left coast wish they were a seperate country, but I didn't know they already were????? The state I live in is struggling too. I hope you don't sell anything in Iowa.
>We manufacture products and sell them in 44
>countries, including Oregon.
No, Texas is not another country, officially, although California is and when Oregon is fully Californicated, they will be too. For OUR sake, I do hope we sell something in Iowa. If you have cable television, chances are we made the cable. If you have a cell phone chances are we made the cell tower cable. If you have a mining operation or a tunnel with communication capability, well, you get my point.......
My $0.02 worth!
DJ The Balloonman
Kidding! Really! sort of...
Ladyzuesse
>procedures is one of them. We manufacture products and sell them in 44
>countries, including Oregon. Our sales in Oregon amount to all of .02
>percent of total annual sales. The state of Oregon had two, count them
>two, state employee auditors here for two, count them two whole days
>this week pouring over our sales figures to be sure we had sent the
>collected Oregon tax money properly to them. This cannot be a wise use
>of state moneys. It was determined that we do owe them a little less
>than a hundred bucks over the entire period covered by the audit. That
>was due to variances in tax amounts. What do you reckon those two
>round trip tickets cost with lodging and meals and comp time? No I
>didn't offer them a fried turkey.
You should have offered some fried baloney!
The waste in government is staggering. Our previous Governor (before he left office in January) spent all the funds in the budget to operate the Governor's Mansion on stuff like squid, lobster and caviar. The present Governor almost had to close the mansion except for the family until new funds could be appropriated. Some private volunteers bailed the mansion out of mothballs.
Every since we outlawed video poker (DON'T EVEN THINK OF POSTING A THREAD ON THIS ONE), we have had a budget deficit There was a grass roots movement afoot to reinstate video poker, but I think it was quashed somehow.
Our federal government in all its wisdom gave our city 4.5 million dollars to build footbridge across an interstate so fools won't get hit by cars trying to run across the interstate. This footbridge connects two ghetto like neighborhoods that would have benefitted greatly from having more desirable housing to live in rather than a weird looking, out of place bridge crossing an interstate.
My $0.02 worth.
DJ The Ballooman
Life long Mets fan!