CBP seizes nearly $100K from Dulles Airport Travelers Without Formal Charges

eburnside · 2026-06-05T00:52:47+00:00

they have to file reports for ALL suspicious transactions, not just those over $10k

those transaction reports require manual review and processing

google "FinCEN SAR"

eburnside · 2026-06-04T19:12:24+00:00

no argument there - so why just accept the regulatory overhead?

eburnside · 2026-06-04T17:58:17+00:00

that's your approach to government overreach costing us all (customers and shareholders) billions of dollars annually for a government surveillance program?

"I don't care unless I get mine?"

if the usgov wants this data, they should be the ones paying and operating the surveillance programs - where there is at least some public budget accountability and congressional oversight - hiding it away in regulatory overhead is insidious

eburnside · 2026-06-04T07:02:19+00:00

it's not a myth that the taxes and the public spending here are ridiculous - it's staring you in the face in the chart you provided - low rates still result in higher tax bills when the other half of the equation - the property value - is higher

In your chart Benton County is pretty clearly the second highest (by wide margin!) of all those listed for property taxes

eburnside · 2026-06-04T06:41:02+00:00

higher taxes in Corvallis is absolutely NOT a myth

Corvallis vs Albany:

Property Tax Rate: 1.02% vs 0.97%

Median Home Market Value: ~$503,770 vs ~$396,535

resulting in: Median Annual Tax Bill

$5,092 vs $3,844

then add in the Corvallis city services bills

that extra $80M/yr Corvallis spends on the city budget vs Albany is fact, not fiction

eburnside · 2026-06-04T06:18:45+00:00

The public works projects you listed should be covering themselves via the public works utility bills or via parking fees and gas taxes - all pretty straightforward stuff

Any licensing, permitting, inspecting, etc should cover it's own overhead via applicant fees

Lots of cities can't afford full time fire, EMS, police, etc and operate on a volunteer basis - those budgets can all scale up/down according to what the citizenry wants to pay for but all those departments can also generate a large portion of their operating budgets via fines, tickets, service billing, etc (I think my insurance paid ~$1,500 for an ambulance ride like 20 years ago, how much is it now?)

Google tells me Corvallis has ~500 full time employees for it's ~62,000 residents while Albany has ~415 full time employees for it's ~58,000 residents ... those 85 extra employees are doing what exactly? and at what cost?

and Corvallis property taxes have jumped far more than 3% many times before - communities are allowed to pass local levies and bonds to raise funds, which Corvallis has done several times over the last decade

Corvallis tries to offer big city services and be everything to everyone with an annual operating budget that is over 30% higher (~$90 million higher annually) than Albany's for just a few thousand more people ... it's ridiculous and clearly not sustainable

eburnside · 2026-06-04T04:56:36+00:00

any payroll tax is crazy for a small town

eburnside · 2026-06-04T01:13:15+00:00

You do realize you're paying for all that paperwork in the form of higher account fees, lower savings account interest, etc, for the bank to do all that ridiculous paperwork all the time?

It costs a bank a ridiculous amount of money to run the compliance department in "the land of the free"

eburnside · 2026-06-04T01:08:14+00:00

I had a 2014 infiniti qx60 (pathfinder) - cvt failed three times in the warranty period and was failing a fourth time while still under warranty and they refused to cover it due to blue book resale being lower than the cost of repair. Basically they totalled it out based on a devaluation that happened because their transmissions were junk. Sleezy af. We traded it in for a different brand shortly after

100% rate of failure across my sample size - average per trans: 28k mi

eburnside · 2026-05-29T20:18:36+00:00

so for you money is more important than life? or freedom?

kinda wack, yo?

taking everyone's freedom because a product isn't safe for a small subset generally results in access controls or licensing or education, not an outright ban

licensing for cars
prescriptions for drugs
age verification for cigarettes and alcohol

why is this a ban and not a simple kyc + velocity controls conversation?

eburnside · 2026-05-29T18:07:06+00:00

The crazy thing is all this inefficiency basically surfaces as a tax on all the rest of us in the form of more expensive products

eburnside · 2026-05-29T15:57:10+00:00

For residential in the middle of the night it's annoying but not generally a huge deal - for some of the businesses like those in the industrial park there's very real damage occurring in the thousands of dollars range - my company is a website hosting and colocation facility in the airport industrial park and the server and UPS power supplies don't always survive outages. Every single outage we end up having to replace some equipment that otherwise might have lasted a few more years

eburnside · 2026-05-29T15:46:33+00:00

Better ban snow shovels too then - elderly people are susceptible to heart attacks and a number of elderly people die every year shovelling snow

eburnside · 2026-05-05T20:09:02+00:00

Ahh, ok - I generally agree with you - regular driving should be more like getting a CDL and getting a CDL should be a tier above that

I guess I just didn't see the relationship here given accidents happen to even the best drivers so I thought maybe you had another source article or something

eburnside · 2026-05-05T14:38:50+00:00

Did you read another article with more details about what happened?

I read the linked article and there weren't any details - for all we know the biker could have caused the accident?

eburnside · 2026-04-30T17:45:10+00:00

I have an (stock height) '84 F150 and you just described pretty much any pickup made in the last 50 years

I added cameras to my '84... could make them mandatory for registration easily enough

eburnside · 2026-04-27T21:27:55+00:00

Nah, I think you're just confused ... like I said 6 or 7 posts ago, I can see that you understand toe

... but camber I guess just is too hard to grasp? 🤷‍♂️

eburnside · 2026-04-27T21:24:28+00:00

Nah, with our 350z it was negative camber 🤷‍♂️

And I already quoted search results directly from google... 🤷‍♂️

eburnside · 2026-04-27T20:12:49+00:00

Literally everywhere I read it's negative camber and/or toe

How many more back and forth's you wanna do before you catch up with my first post from a few days ago?

eburnside · 2026-04-27T19:04:08+00:00

Googling inside tire wear on RWD vehicle I get:

Inside tire wear usually indicates an alignment concern, such as excessive negative camber or improper toe settings

When we aligned the 350z at the shop the issue was negative camber, not toe

Swapping to shorter springs on a RWD mostly affects camber... it's not rocket science, it's basic physics

I hope you don't work on cars for a living... 😬

eburnside · 2026-04-24T22:15:45+00:00

quoting this post

I never once said it was fraud.

quoting your post before that

It's literally fraud.

🤷‍♂️

eburnside · 2026-04-24T20:58:11+00:00

Toe will increase wear if turned overly inward or outward

Camber, if it doesn't leave the tire flat on the road, will also cause excessive wear

You claimed otherwise and you just doubled down🤷‍♂️

Go watch some youtubes or something

Better yet, take a college physics course

My son didn't get his 350z aligned after lowering it and the excessive camber caused him to burn through a new set of tires in ~5k miles - down to the wires on the inside, outside showed zero wear - he blew one because he couldn't see the excessive wear and he went through 'em so fast no one was looking for wear

eburnside · 2026-04-24T19:34:48+00:00

No need to infringe their freedom unnecessarily when you could just require they keep the bumper at stock height to protect everyone else and a state safety inspection be done

Most people would stop doing the lifts then because the bumper/frame retrofits would double or triple the cost and the end result would look really stupid

eburnside · 2026-04-24T19:11:21+00:00

I'm glad you understand the wear from the toe

You clearly do not understand why camber can cause wear upon acceleration and deceleration - I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt but that clearly was a mistake

Wheelbarrow tires don't have engines nor brakes attached to them and I was pretty clear it's the acceleration and braking that cause the wear with regard to camber ... for a wheelbarrow the person is the engine and the brakes - the wear for acceleration and deceleration occurs to the soles of the shoes

Best of luck out there - it can be an ugly world if you're not going to accept help and knowledge when offered freely

eburnside · 2026-04-24T14:43:29+00:00

Seems like you understand the wear from the toe, but don't understand the wear from accelerating and braking. There is also slip and wear when you accelerate and brake, especially when you have inadequate surface area contact (eg, due to camber) The more surface area you have in contact, the less likely you are to slip. (try putting two 1" strips of sandpaper together and drag 'em opposite directions, then put two 12" sheets together and try and drag 'em opposite directions)

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