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 ...
Rather have a Logger for a neighbor than an “environmentalist”. When I was 24, I didn’t realize this, to my lasting shame.
Dumbass Oregon voters voted for this crap and more which is still in the works and coming.
And the environmentalists probably don’t even live there.
Raise taxes and piss them away.
5 to 7 percent is a profit margin for lots of businesses.
Every time I think that people couldn’t be more stupid, the Democrats prove me wrong......pathetic.
...citing the state's "regulatory and tax creep."
Thanks Twotone.
Yep on Salem Parkway. Have they determined for sure that he was an illegal? If so, this story will disappear down the rat hole.
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.
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 :(
Three more acts of love as per Yeb.
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
Btw...Salem is Not a liberal stronghold...yet
See post 30...MAY not be an illegal...misinformation my hub gave me
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.
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.
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.
YES!
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
Lots of people here fighting...I’m so angry about that accident...hoping it knocks some sense into certain people
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