Posted on 08/27/2008 1:33:29 PM PDT by John Jorsett
Wasn’t there an episode of “The Simpsons” where the town of Springfield levied a leaving town tax on a film production company? Of course, this would be MORE cartoonish than any episod of The Simpsons....
Add another 12% to those rates if Obama gets his wish to subject all income to FICA tax. Not to mention the increase he wants on the federal income tax. Plus whatever increase California’s Democratic legislature gets to California’s income tax.
When Mexifornia defaults and enters bankruptcy, I sincerely hope the federal government refuses to help them out.
They made their bed; now let them lie in it.
Scary and sad that anyone could be so selfishly demented. But this wouldn’t pass Constitutional muster as there is a recognized “Constitutional right to travel.”
Unless, of course, Marxist President Obama would pack the Courts with Ayers/Dohrn types.
Scary indeed.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This sounds like it’s modeled on the bill that taxes people trying to leave the USA for another country to get around the taxes.
Rich people started doing that decades ago, moving to tax havens in the Caribbean.
SSI is chump change compared to saving a large percentage of your real earned and investment income, especially capital gains.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Will they tax all the money that is wired back to mexico from illeagals?
That ALONE would pay all of Kali-fornias bills!
Isn’t ironic that this will hit the Hollywood types pretty hard with their expensive real estate that will become instantly worth less if just the petition is successful. The exit will start hard. What fool will wait for the vote?
The looters just won’t learn that their plan cannot work in the long run. All producers either switch sides or flee. Soon no wealth is left to loot. Then the looters have to do each others laundry in hope of surviving.
Since Reagan the best thing to come out of California is I-10 West.
Do it. Drive people out. Become the Sweden, circa 1975, of the Western Hemisphere. Turn yourself into the Third World dump, complete with a huge, uneducated, hostile underclass and capital flight, that you deserve.
I will meet with Bobby Jindal (Gov of Louisiana) and propose that if such were to pass that we extend to all fromer California tax-payers hit with such a surcharge that they be exemptied for 5 years from all state taxes. No socialists or communists need apply.
Wilson left them with a urplus, right?
Welcome to the hotel California Such a lovely place Such a lovely face You can checkout any time you like, But you can never leave!
Ping
Napa Valley wines will go up in value as imports.
The rest of the country will once again get to be a part of the nightly news.
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