Posted on 01/26/2009 12:55:12 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Golf course owners and some of their customers are teed off at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. So are veterinarians, auto mechanics and amusement park operators.
Their anger is directed at the Republican governor's proposal to extend the state sales tax to cover more services, an idea that has surfaced in other states as they race to plug crippling budget deficits. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research clearinghouse, predicts such deficits nationwide could reach $350 billion by 2011.
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What is the problem? Just tax everything in life. Then the government can go on its merry way without having to resort to going to the legislature for everything ....
Hey Democrats, why not a head tax on illegals?
Air is something in need of taxation.
Hey libs! Wake up. This is what happens when you keep putting your mindless, tax-crazy, spend-crazy liberals in charge of Taxifornia. Yes, you want MORE TAXES??? Just keep voting for your radical liberals —— and don’t fart! I hear there will be a 25 cent tax on every one......
I love how the anger is directed at the Republican governor...they would never write a sentence that reads: the anger is directed at the DEMOCRATIC congress...
Taxing veterinary care is a really doozie.. as it is, shelters are already reporting an influx of owner turns ins - often of sick animals where the owner can’t afford the treatment. Further taxation will simply result in more of the same.
There is no shortage of asinine ideas in politics, esp in regards to taxes.
Yes but they're starting slow, with just exhaling (carbon dioxide caps). After the EPA declares oxygen a pollutant too thaey can start taxing inhaling as well.
I think that was done in one of Arnold's movies - Total Recall.
Right - and try to find what party a particular politician belongs to when malfeasance in office is mentioned in the media ....
Veterinary services? Does he even understand that vet bills are already a huge problem for non-wealthy people?
RE: “Taxing veterinary care is a really doozie.. as it is, shelters are already reporting an influx of owner turns ins - often of sick animals where the owner can’t afford the treatment. Further taxation will simply result in more of the same.”
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Yes, hoards of dogs and cats are left at home when owners take off; dogs are tied to trees and cats left inside usually. News media in L.A. constantly begging people to adopt a shelter dog — but animals are expensive to keep whether purebred or mutt. Add taxes onto everything animal-related and there will be millions more added to what’s out there already. Way to go, dimwitted bleeding heart Dems — what a band of idiots.
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They already do tax golf courses.... It’s called property tax.
Problem is, fart monitor they put on your a$$ costs $84,000. INCREASE the bailout!!
Awnuld wants to tax auto repairs? Hah! good one! I do all my own work, you big dufus!
Hey Ah-nold, just tax porn and fine blond-bimbo celebutards that get arrested for driving under the influence a million $$$. Crisis averted!
And if you’re looking for a surplus, place a huge tax on dumb headline writers.
The ONE criteria that any vendor MUST fit is no Californicatestan sales tax. All the purchases I can make this way, I do.
Schwartzenkennedy may get different results than he expects.
Tax toilet paper too. Then we can wipe away that budget deficit in no time!
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