Posted on 10/07/2010 2:41:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Among the details that are just now starting to trickle out is that this so-called "no tax budget" includes loads of fee increases – which many believe are tax increases by another name – and at least one direct tax increase.
Details remain sketchy, but sprinkled throughout the 22 bills in the budget package are increases to the alcohol and beverage catering fee, the liquor license fee, the enterprise zone application fee, some sort of parking fee and numerous judicial fees: a first paper filing fee, a telephonic fee, a summary judgment fee and a court security fee.
Meanwhile, the Human Services trailer bill includes an IHSS (in-home supportive services) service provider tax increase, which directly obliterates any claim that this budget does not raise taxes.
As it was, some Republicans and even some Democrats were grumbling that the budget proposal includes virtual tax increase because it delays implementation of a corporate tax break that allows struggling businesses to carry forward their profit losses into profitable years. That two-year delay will end up costing businesses $1.2 billion and is considered by at least some lawmakers to be a tax increase.
At the same time, a few Republicans flatly declared they would not be voting for the budget because they had been given so little time to review the material.
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The $75 “license” fee for fast food workers just shows them sticking it to the rich.
Neither buy nor sell without the license of the beast.
All fees and ‘non-taxes’ go into the general fund anyway.
These so called fees have to be administered to. Bigger government is the answer. /sarc/
“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” 23.11 Ch23 Economic Harmonies - Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
$100 to your favorite charity says the Ca Budget as proposed and if signed by Governor Shriver, will be at least $10 BILLION in the RED before Christmas. Any Takers??
More “prey on the voting bloc too small to object” government solutions.
It really is silly when you think about it. If the issue was revenue rather than control and vote buying, CA would simply:
1) extend their Sales Tax to all goods and services while lowering the rate from 8% to 5% (collecting $60B/yr), and
2) strip out the tax loopholes, deductions, and credits from its income tax and use a flat 4% rate (collecting another $50B), instead of the 9% rate with all the rigamarole.
I don’t know how we ever acquired the mistaken belief that we could tack “fees” and high rate taxes on tourists and high earners without driving them away. It has turned CA into a magnet for underachievers and illegal aliens.
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