itsrobert (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 08:18 AM
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Internet shoppers: Please pay your "USE" tax this year
As a reminder, states like California require you to list your online purchases you made that you not have all ready paid taxes on. Please list this on your state tax form if required and pay your taxes.
Happy Thanksgiving.
sendero (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 08:20 AM
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1. Thanks for ...
... reminding me! I'm very concerned about state revenues! We all must do our parts!
LOL
Yeah---Californians have to bail out the repukes who made this mess.
TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 08:20 AM
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2. I'll get right on it....
....whenever...........
FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 08:49 AM
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5. Funny - Arnold promised to LOWER Taxes
We now have the HIGHEST Sales Tax ever.
DMV Fees (car tax) has returned to the same level prior to his campaign promise to reduce DMV Fees and the State is STILL BROKE and quagmired in deficit spending. GOOD JOB you RATpubliCON Stooge Arnold
hughee99 (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 10:35 AM
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12. Exactly, Californians need to get some Dems in the statehouse
Edited on Thu Nov-26-09 10:35 AM by hughee99
so the repukes won't be forcing these taxes on everyone.
hughee99 (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 10:46 AM
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22. Regardless, if they could somehow take control of the CA state legislature
they could prevent the repukes from forcing their taxes on anyone. Democrats would never allow this sort of tax policy to happen on their watch.
FreakinDJ (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 10:56 AM
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24. RATpubliCONs are the Minority Party in Calif Legislature
Gold Metal Flake (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 11:02 AM
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25. Thanks to prop 13, the minority party is still capable of blocking new tax legislation.
67% vote for new tax legislation. It's gonna take more democrats to get rid of that and restore some sanity to the tax code. Until then, the rich and the big corporations will continue to **** over the lower and middle classes and the pukes will continue to lie about it and Norquist will still exert control over the pukes and the radio will still broadcast RW lies and the republickers will still blame liberals.
liberalmike27 (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 09:03 AM
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6. Right
As long as they refund my shipping costs. And that isn't going to happen.
Hell, one of the good things about the Internet is that you get out of paying the horribly regressive sales taxes. Go figure, they lowered the rate since 1964 of the highest earners income taxes from 90 to 35 percent, and at the same time, sales taxes, here anyway, doubled.
Taxes, off the rich, and onto everyone else, and many of the neo-cons voted for it. We all need to be trying to sluff off the most regressive of taxes, sales, and gas.
michreject (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 09:35 AM
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9. Ah................no
If I want to pay tax, deal with rude sales people and waste gas, I would buy it locally.
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 10:38 AM
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13. I'll start honoring the use tax when the CA legislature balances the budget
Edited on Thu Nov-26-09 10:42 AM by slackmaster
I'm not going to voluntarily send them more cash just so they can piss it away.
I like this topic.
K&R
Kievan Rus (856 posts) Thu Nov-26-09 10:40 AM
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16. But why don't the Teabaggers protest Ahnuld for this?
After all, doesn't TEA stand for 'Taxed Enough Already'?
Oops...I forgot...it's only frivilous taxation when a Democrat does it!
951-Riverside (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 11:28 AM
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26. Why would anyone do that?
Edited on Thu Nov-26-09 11:29 AM by 951-Riverside
Here in California we have to pay a "recycle" tax... err fee ranging from $8 to $25 on all Monitors, Laptops, Portable DVD players and Televisions, on top of that there is the sales tax, if I lived in Los Angeles County I will have to pay a 9.75% sales tax (In South Gate its actually 10.750%!)
So lets to the math, If I purchased a 37 inch television in Los Angeles County...
Price: $499.99
Tax: 9.75% ($48.75)
Recycle Fee: $25
Total: $573.74 ($73.75 in taxes and fees)
or a 15 inch laptop
Price: $399.99
Tax: 9.75% ($38.10)
Recycle Fee: $16
Total: $454.09 ($54.01 in taxes and fees)
or a 21 inch monitor on blackfriday
Price: $79.99
Tax: 9.75% ($7.80)
Recycle Fee: $16
Total: $103.79 ($23.08 in taxes and fees)
and despite all of taxes and fees California collects, it's still broke.
Until the representatives of this state gets off their lazy asses and make necessary cuts and balance the budget people are not going to be inclined to voluntarily list all of their online purchases and voluntarily pay a "use" tax on top of the high taxes they're already paying.
Plus I don't want my tax preparer knowing I spent $9 on purchasing Muff Love 22.
I love it when they gripe about taxes they vote for the party of taxes then piss and moan when they have to pay them too.
It's not that taxes aren't high enough in Califruitopia, it's that spending has run amuck. But fine, let them raise taxes on the wealthy and on businesses, that will just mean fewer wealthy people and businesses. New York City is finding that out the hard way.
It's almost like they are of the belief that since they voted Democrat...they will some how be exempted from the taxes imposed by their party bosses.
It's almost like they are of the belief that since they voted Democrat...they will some how be exempted from the taxes imposed by their party bosses.
Just like the think if they be nice to the muzzies they may not get their heads sawed off.
Think about it...How does one stare into the face of history and yet still be able to pretend so much isn`t true?
In all honesty the OP didn't state that he would pay his taxes. Only a reminder for others to pay their taxes.
You know that "Don't do as I do; Do as I say" thing.
CA is going to hell in a handbasket after many years of unchecked liberal control and after Grey Davis got the boot, people really thought Arnie was going to fix everything. He only made it worst. Thank God next year is an election year.
CA is going to hell in a handbasket after many years of unchecked liberal control and after Grey Davis got the boot, people really thought Arnie was going to fix everything. He only made it worst. Thank God next year is an election year.
He tried. Arnold had three propositions that would have checked the growth of kalifornia's budget and union public job expansion. The unions and the democrats (but I repeat myself) went balls to the wall to defeat them and they succeeded. After that Arnold was effectively neutered.
Will it be any better? They'll just blame the current republican governor, and elect an even more leftist one.
Just like the think if they be nice to the muzzies they may not get their heads sawed off.
Lord, I hope so.