Posted on 11/18/2009 10:33:24 PM PST by hoguenews
So it might be the cynic in me or call me crazy for not trusting the government, but I cannot believe that there was not more attention paid to the state’s latest accounting gimmick to save the state’s budget.
Starting Sunday you may notice a few less dollars in each paycheck, 10 percent less to be specific. While the state says that the money will be returned in April, something does not sit right with me when the government helps itself to even more of my paycheck especially when so many people are already living paycheck to paycheck.
Read the report at the link...
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The entire state Gov’t are theives, along with the Unions, excessive pensions, teachers, blah blah blah.. I can’t think of a better (and more bankrupt) state for Obama to model our Federal Gov’t’s spending after. Can you say, “Cloward and Piven”?
I believe they are going to withold 10% more than current, not 10% of wages. I sure hope I’m right. In either case, it’s still robbery.
You are correct. An additional 10% of what is currently the STATES WITHHOLDING.
So UP your dependents. Currently claiming four? Up it to six. Be smarter than the gubmint.
That is still a lot of money when considering 10% of all the state’s witholding.
Thank God for states. As this one tries desperately to fund it’s public sector parasitism at the Gold Club level, it’s collapse remains imminent. A poor example of ‘self government’, but a wonderful example of that which Obama should avoid- were he paying attention. But he ain’t.
The first domino. 56 to go....
I think that anyone in CA who can should get out now. Soon the hogs at the trough (state and local government employees, teachers, etc.) will find themselves with no one to tax to support their outlandish pensions, pay and benefits but themselves, and the whole house of cards will collapse.
Agreed. Do whatever it takes to deprive the beast of oxygen. It may come due again later, but better that you should have it now than the fascist state.
” . . . the state says that the money will be returned in April, . . .”
But will they be IOU’s.
I heard that you can’t pay new taxes with IOU’s. Is that true?
...I heard that you can’t pay new taxes with IOU’s. Is that true?...
Yep, quite true.
The IOU’s are bad enough, but the fact that you can use the IOU’s to settle difference from the issuer of the IOU is insane. How can they even begin to justify that? Any legal challenges to it?
...Any legal challenges to it?...
None that I have heard about.
I just did a search and there is a law firm that filed a class action suit but evidently nothing has come of it yet.
Won’t people just revise their W2s, reducing withholding to make up for Caleefornia’s thuggery?
LOL, won’t it be funny when the money “returned in April” is in the form of state IOUs?
“Won’t people just revise their W2s, reducing withholding to make up for Caleefornia’s thuggery?”
I was thinking the same thing when I first heard about the increase?
Thanks for the update. Hopefully the class action will get some traction. It sounds like the gov’t in CA is out of control in respect to other people’s money.
This was not the first time the state has done this. It happened in 1992 as well. My hubby worked for the state at that time and was paid once a month. The first month the bank was more than happy to take it. The second month, not so much. Workers had to wait until they passed a budget to even cash it. Luckily, I worked (not for the state thank goodness) so we weren’t as affected as some.
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