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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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It's simple Pat...make no money. Then the state income tax of 9% doesn't hurt quite as bad. (9% on all income above $5,000 per year) Property taxes? Live in a shack, and in a low real estate demand area. That lowers those. You mean NOT being allowed to pump your own gas? Yep, that's an Oregon law...a jobs protection for pump jockies law, I guess. But I easily get around that close to home by sticking to the same gas station where they know me. Out of town? I just tell the kid that the paint is older than he is, and if he spills a drop, I'll break his knee. He then usually hands me the nozzle and a paper towell....after all, the state fire marshall isn't standing at every pump. 
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