[matt04]

If you are dumb enough to do business in CA, you should expect to be screwed over by Sacramento.

[tgusa]

Just another reason for CA to be split up into 3 or 4 states. What a lunatic asylum.

[Tenacious 1]

“It sends a message that you can’t trust government. If you comply in good faith with the rules, they can go back and penalize you.”

Low information voter there. I'd say he's behind the curve by a good measure.

[Logical me]

California is the communists dictatorship of the world. Not just America but the world. California is leading America to a land of dictatorship, greed by the ruling class, and illegals. So goes America, which is finished and will never be a constitution land again. When the riots begin, like Spain, asses will roll in their own crap and will take many of us with it. Lock and load and hold off until the crash or when some ass comes to take your gun away.

[Red in Blue PA]

LOL! So they want to scare away the few people left doing business there? Great move.

[Michael.SF.]

[skeeter]

Soon all departments of government will exist for the sole purpose of collecting taxes.

[Rusty0604]

“Investors who could be hit by the retroactive taxes did not want to go on camera, fearing they would become an easy target for the Franchise Tax Board.”

[KarlInOhio]

“It sends a message that you can’t trust government.

You're only getting the message now? I think that was first pressed into clay tablets by the Sumerians.

[Navy Patriot]

“They relied on California law as it was written,..."

Suckers.

[hattend]

But a court ruled in December that practice by the state was unconstitutional. Now, the Franchise Tax Board wants its money.

It took 5 years for the Franchise Tax Board to shop for a judge? You'd think they have one standing in the wings ready to strike the law down.

[GeronL]

They should all just close shop.

Obama has made his preference for big business easily controlled by government and shakedowns by liberals than small business too

[The Public Eye]

Tribute must be paid.

[SgtHooper]

Yup! That’ll learn em!

[MCH]

Typical super-lib title, as indicated by the phrase "pay back" with regard to taxes.

News bulletin to @hole libs...

Producers, as in small businesses in this case, don't "pay back" ANYTHING to their tyrannical CA government overlord. All they do is PAY. Tax breaks are just additional funds that the small businesses EARNED themselves that the government didn't STEAL the first time around.

You don't "pay back" money that you yourself earned to someone who wants to steal it.

Non-libs needs to call these liberal media scum on their language bias whenever it happens. This one is blatant.

[JSDude1]

Laughing at California after their “transgendered student bill” and ALL the rest of the mess they’ve created after 20+ years one party rule!