Internet shoppers: Please pay your "USE" tax this year

[Carl]

Was looking for Thanksgiving bouncies but too early yet it seems.
Thought this was amusing to show what DUmmies think of taxes that they say should be raised.

itsrobert  (1000+ posts)          Thu Nov-26-09 08:18 AM
Original message
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.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7092746

sendero (1000+ posts)          Thu Nov-26-09 08:20 AM
Response to Original message
1. Thanks for ...
   ... reminding me! I'm very concerned about state revenues! We all must do our parts!

There is a patriotic DUmmy unless it was meant to be sarcasm?

LOL
   Yeah---Californians have to bail out the repukes who made this mess.

California is a Republican state?
Guess that means O must have stole it in 2008 somehow.

TheCowsCameHome  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-26-09 08:20 AM
Response to Original message
2. I'll get right on it....
   ....whenever...........

Very disappointed that you aren`t willing to pay your fair share.

FreakinDJ (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-26-09 08:49 AM
Response to Original message
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

Arnie is hardly a Republican as I wish for one but seems odd that the state hands him a checkbook to spend at will with.

hughee99 (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-26-09 10:35 AM
Response to Reply #5
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
Response to Reply #17
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.

So it isn`t Arnie it is the damned Republicans that control the state legislature.
How did that happen yet dems have carried the state in the Presidential election every year since 1988 I think?

FreakinDJ (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-26-09 10:56 AM
Response to Reply #22
24. RATpubliCONs are the Minority Party in Calif Legislature

Whoops.

Gold Metal Flake  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-26-09 11:02 AM
Response to Reply #24
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
Response to Original message
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.

In other words tax everyone except me.

michreject  (1000+ posts)          Thu Nov-26-09 09:35 AM
Response to Original message
9. Ah................no
   If I want to pay tax, deal with rude sales people and waste gas, I would buy it locally.

You are a disgrace to the left..cheating the government out of taxes and forcing people out of work.

slackmaster  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-26-09 10:38 AM
Response to Original message
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

Welcome to Conservatism.
Amazing how libs are only that way with other peoples money.

Kievan Rus (856 posts)        Thu Nov-26-09 10:40 AM
Response to Original message
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!

It is simply the law of the state and they are asking you to comply,it isn`t a new tax...just trying to crack down on you unpatriotic tax cheats.

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.

Yet another Conservative is born...kind of makes me tear up. {sniffle}

[TheSarge]

I love the total and complete blame shift form the Democrat controlled house...senate...comptroller...Ag and every position other than the Gov's seat that is being warmed by Terminator The RINO.


DUmmies...and the Statists have this inbred refusal to accept blame...ever.

[thundley4]

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.

[Freeper]

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.

[TheSarge]

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 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.

[BlueStateSaint]

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.

So is New York State.

[Carl]

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 is the same delusion they have in thinking they will be elevated to the politburo in the socialist state they crave.
The moment they started griping about how they don`t have the housing or whatever they deserve they would soon discover what northern Maine is like in January.

[Freeper]

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.

[Carl]

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?

[NHSparky]

Dear DUmb****s--if you lived in states like New Hampshire, you wouldn't have to worry about it.

But no matter, we've got Democrats firmly in control here, so we'll not be far behind you in the hell-in-a-handbasket race.

[TheSarge]

Think about it...How does one stare into the face of history and yet still be able to pretend so much isn`t true?

As I've said before...It's easy to do when you blame America for everything bad that's happened since Columbus arrived.

[Tucker]

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.

[NHSparky]

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.

Followed by the idiots blaming all ills on a socialist-wannabe RINO.  Apparently they are not aware of who runs the CA Assembly and Senate, along with every other major statewide office.

[SilverOrchid]

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.

[thundley4]

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.

Will it be any better?  They'll just blame the current republican governor, and elect an even more leftist one.

[Oceander]

That's nice, but how's about they clean their own house first, and get their party leaders to pay their taxes, before they start nagging the rest of us to pay ours (and quite frankly, almost none of us have the desire, or the ability, to commit tax fraud the way Democrat leaders do - anyone thinking of Charlie "Tax Evader" Rangel yet?).

[jukin]

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. 

[Karin]

There's a good article in the National Review this month about this, by VDH.  A lot of very plainly spelling out the problems, but not a lot of fixes.  People all over the political spectrum have simply gotten used to getting something for nothing. 

I think the worst problem is headcount.  Too much of it, and too highly paid ($350K for a city nurse?)  Retirement at 50, with 90%.  Can't.  Be.  Done.   

Can I say that #25 up there was the most childish post of the day. 

[Celtic Rose]

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. 

Bingo.  The Unions and Democrats refuse to allow pretty much any cuts, then blame the Republicans when the budget isn't fixed.  A line by line analysis of the budget is really the only thing that could fix anything, but that will never happen. 

[SilverOrchid]

Will it be any better?  They'll just blame the current republican governor, and elect an even more leftist one.

Lord, I hope so.

[AllosaursRus]

Just like the think if they be nice to the muzzies they may not get their heads sawed off.

These pussies would take up the "religion of peace" way before then! When the guy with the sword asked the question, the answer would be "PRAISE ALLAH"!

ETA(myself, I'd be auditioning for the next rendition of the "Headless Horseman")

[AllosaursRus]

Lord, I hope so.

Anyone wanting to know what the "hippie" culture has done to history, need not look any farther than the state of Kalifornicate. They won't be satisfied until they turn the whole damn state into a commune/ghetto! Way to go, you liberal pukes, good job!