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Oregon lumber co. cuts workforce by 40% over taxes, fees
KTVZ.com ^ | June 2, 2019 | AP and KTVZ.COM news sources

Posted on 06/03/2019 2:19:22 PM PDT by Twotone

FOREST GROVE, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon lumber company is cutting its workforce by about 40%, citing the state's "regulatory and tax creep."

The Stimson Lumber Company announced Friday that it would lay off 60 jobs from its Forest Grove operations.

CEO Andrew Miller said environmental permit fees, Oregon's Clean Fuels Tax and pending cap and trade legislation are stacking up the cost of doing business in the state.

The company said it will now shift some of that work to Idaho and Montana, where it cost 5% to 7% less to produce lumber products.

In Oregon, Stimson also operates in Tillamook and Clatskanie.

Miller is a longtime Republican donor who has for years railed against new taxes and fees supported by Democrats who have gained power.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktvz.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; incometaxes; lumber; oregon; regulations; taxcutsandjobsact; taxes; taxreform; tcja
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To: Twotone

Rather have a Logger for a neighbor than an “environmentalist”. When I was 24, I didn’t realize this, to my lasting shame.


21 posted on 06/03/2019 3:22:04 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Twotone

Dumbass Oregon voters voted for this crap and more which is still in the works and coming.


22 posted on 06/03/2019 3:34:48 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: blueunicorn6

And the environmentalists probably don’t even live there.


23 posted on 06/03/2019 3:37:45 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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To: Twotone

Raise taxes and piss them away.

5 to 7 percent is a profit margin for lots of businesses.


24 posted on 06/03/2019 3:43:57 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: Twotone

Every time I think that people couldn’t be more stupid, the Democrats prove me wrong......pathetic.


25 posted on 06/03/2019 3:49:18 PM PDT by terycarl (Notre Dame was God's way of pointing out that France has fallen from His favor....)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...citing the state's "regulatory and tax creep."
Thanks Twotone.

26 posted on 06/03/2019 3:50:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: goodnesswins

Yep on Salem Parkway. Have they determined for sure that he was an illegal? If so, this story will disappear down the rat hole.


27 posted on 06/03/2019 3:52:55 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: Cold Heart
Dumbass Oregon voters voted for this crap and more which is still in the works and coming.

A lot of us didn't vote for this crap, but Portland (Moscow on the Willamette), Salem, Eugene, Ashland are liberal strongholds, and it doesn't look like anything is going to change anytime soon.

28 posted on 06/03/2019 3:56:33 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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As a 5th generation Oregonian, coming from a long family of loggers, ranchers and conservatives, I HATE what the Libs have done to our state. I hope they stay on the west of the Cascades! Lots of good people over there getting hurt by the Dem takeover too, very sad :(


29 posted on 06/03/2019 3:59:19 PM PDT by IndependentGranny
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To: goodnesswins

Three more acts of love as per Yeb.


30 posted on 06/03/2019 4:04:23 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: Inspectorette

Here’s his name..Juan Carlos Rodriguez Palacios ....

No...my hub who told me about accident said that...I thought he knew...now I see there is no comment in police report...we are, however a sanctuary state, so who knows


31 posted on 06/03/2019 4:14:16 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: Inspectorette

Btw...Salem is Not a liberal stronghold...yet


32 posted on 06/03/2019 4:15:20 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: wally_bert

See post 30...MAY not be an illegal...misinformation my hub gave me


33 posted on 06/03/2019 4:17:10 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: ConjunctionJunction

Right now, The Missoula Committee To Establish Where Smoke Comes From And Then Tax It is meeting to figure this and all the rest of the world’s problems out in the back of The Top Hat.


34 posted on 06/03/2019 4:17:58 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: goodnesswins

I guess I was just thinking about the politicians who infest the Capitol building: our Governatrix Kate Brown and her minions, along with the Democrat-controlled legislature.


35 posted on 06/03/2019 4:33:20 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: Cold Heart

36 counties in Oregon with five of them in the NW corner of the state controlling everything. We need an electoral type voting by county. The remaining 31 counties are all conservative voting blocs.


36 posted on 06/03/2019 4:41:36 PM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: OregonRancher

YES!


37 posted on 06/03/2019 5:05:23 PM PDT by IndependentGranny
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To: goodnesswins

I did a search to find if he was illegal but found this!
In December 2017, an illegal alien with the same last name (different guy) killed three government employees FBI, fire marshal, one other, in Maryland. Drunk driving. In January 2018 he was fined $280


38 posted on 06/03/2019 6:38:19 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Inspectorette

Lots of people here fighting...I’m so angry about that accident...hoping it knocks some sense into certain people


39 posted on 06/03/2019 8:03:18 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: eyeamok
Yes but the flames when they burn down all the trees that were hugged, is really pretty to watch!


40 posted on 06/03/2019 8:16:40 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputec)
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