Washington State to Set Up State Border Crossing Booths

[longknife]

The governor says the state is losing too much $ on people who go elsewhere to buy stuff in order to avoid the high taxes in his state.


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Okay, so this is a farcical blog. BUT, here's where they got the lead:


Border-hopping shoppers cost state millions in lost revenue @ Border-hopping shoppers cost state millions in lost revenue UW Election Eye 2012 Seattle Times

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

God i'm glad my parents moved from the fascist state of washington to Texas when I was four.
What a fucked up solution to a self inflicted problem.

 

[HenryBHough]

Just inside Nevada is an area where some fantastic melons are grown.

At the California side of the border on I-80 is a California agricultural inspection station where they'll confiscate your melons. It's out of fear of insects! Despite the distance from the melon fields to the state line being in easy crawling distance of California - and less than a 10-second flight for any but worth its wings.

One of the most busy roads in Californiocation bypasses the border station. But only busy in melon season.

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At one point Massachusetts was losing tax revenue when people with any brains drove a half-mile into New Hampshire to buy inexpensive liquor from NH state stores.

The Pay State didn't set up customs stations. They posted spy cars in the parking lots of NH state liquor stores to photograph the license plates of Taxachusetts cars so jackbooted troopers could pull those cars over once the returned to their "home" state.

Wasn't long before there were NO Massachusetts cars in those NH liquor stores parking lot but there was a hell of a shortage of on-street parking within a mile of each such store.

Massachusetts never did figure out what happened and abandoned the program.

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But Washington State folks can hardly be expected to figure out any of that....

 

[Iceweasel]

Oregon residents don't have to pay sales tax so many come here to shop so it works both ways. Inslee is a retard, I mean just listen to him speak sometime. I think he's just the socialist's handpuppet anyway.

 

[pismoe]

noose keeps tightening !!