Minor tax avoidance? NOT evasion! Lol.

I know cigarettes are/were the number one item to avoid the price hike of taxes but what about as a moral complaint against your local/state government? I buy a lot of books on Amazon for a penny and refuse to buy from a seller that has a tax. But the real reason I bring up what is admittedly a political thread is that I am sick and tired of the many E36 M3ty streets where I live. So today I'm gonna drive 15-20 minutes north into the neighboring jurisdiction and give them my money instead. I don't care if it's more expensive or taxed more I'm just going into tax avoidance mode on this one. Counter productive? Yes and no. Cathartic? Why yes. Rant off.

So you are not paying local taxes and expect your roads to be fixed?

In reply to spitfirebill:

That was the yes/no answer to the counter productive question. I don't expect them to get fixed even if I write them a check for extra taxes. I knew I shouldn't have started a political discussion.

I would write a letter (old-fashioned, I know) or email or call the appropriate local government office and politely bitch them out for having crappy roads. Tell them that you, as a resident of the locality of "Blah," demand better. Then, get as many of your neighbors as you can to do the same.

Let your voice be heard! Squeaky wheel gets the grease and all that, yadda yadda.

In the state of Ohio, if you buy food at a restaurant you will pay sales tax of about 7%, but if you get your fast food order to go...no tax. Therefore, if you, like myself, want a 7% reduction in the price of your fast food you order it to go but then still sit down and eat it there.

Add to that, to discouraged sugary drinks if you order a soda, even diet, it will be taxed, even if you order to-go, but... Unsweetened ice tea is not taxed. So, if its a self service fountain, order the unsweetened tea to save the 7% but fill with whatever flavor you choose.

I think it's more of: I'm paying taxes, nothing is improving, berkeley em.

SC is about to raise the gas tax .$.10 a gallon to pay for road repairs. I'll believe it when I see it (the road repairs that is). It appears our DOT may have a touch of corruption.

Hell they can't figure out how to build brand new roads properly around here, I have no hope of them ever attempting to fix a road.

These berkeleyers are too headstrong and cocky that that wouldn't listen to any person that actually knew how to build a road properly in the first place.

I wasn't actually looking to resurrect my own thread but then I read the link below. I was looking for the 'Rant of the day' thread but didn't find it right away or I would have posted there. After watching the wealthy college educated monocultural harridans protesting in town yesterday the graffiti might have been allowed to stay if it was a uterus.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/12/california-residents-use-paint-phallic-symbols-to-draw-attention-to-unfixed-potholes.html

^Now that's a MUCH better form of protest than your idea. Some dick-graffiti on the road combined with paying taxes will get you billiard-table-smooth streets in no time

California’s Gas Tax to Hit 30 Cents a Gallon

Now come on, we’ve got brutal winters taking a bill toll on our roads and limiting repair opportunities to just ~350 days per year. And then there’s the ultra-low population per mile of road (oh, to jut have North Dakota’s challenges) that drives up fixed costs.

Makes sense that we should have among the highest gas prices in the nation; right?

Best way to get a pothole fixed is to call the Department of Public Works (or a local Commissioner) and report a SINKHOLE.

Sinkholes mean more than potholes, from a liability perspective.

Once ran across an actual sinkhole in an old abandoned road, it was about 4ft deep and almost big enough to swallow my Samurai.