Posted on 03/25/2013 4:09:45 PM PDT by swamp40
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While the law stipulates that I must surrender this money, I refuse to acknowledge this as a tax at all. This is not a tax. This is an asset seizure plain and simple. The term retroactive tax is a despicable euphemism. It is no different than when Hugo Chavez used the benign-sounding nationalize to describe his seizure of private property in Venezuela.
Now before I go any further, let me tell you what I am not.
I am not a Tea Party member. I am not even a Republican. Twice I have voted for Barack Obama, and I was supportive of his tax compromise earlier this year. I am not a person who opposes paying taxes, even higher ones. I am a very reasonable person who respects the great opportunity that America has given to me.
But there is a very clear and unambiguous line between taxes regardless of how high they are and asset seizures. The State of California has taken money from me. Money that I already earned and paid taxes on, and I will not tolerate this act of theft.
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Read the comments, with the obligatory liberal bashing of Texas.
So then, leftard, stay the blip out of Texas. You say there is nothing here, OK, there is nothing here in your puny mind. Go to another leftist cesspool. Go to New York. Taxachussetts. Maryland. Illinois. Even Minnesota, where you will get the head trip for daring to do better than average, besides you probably did not even go to junior high in Minnesota (a minimum to be socially acceptable up there).
Not slow, just free.
Husband at school tonight. Have some posting time.
Later...;-)
Not slow, just free.
Husband at school tonight. Have some posting time.
Later...;-)
Meanwhile, Magpul Industries is getting out of Colorado as fast as they can!
“I have run into some stunned Obama voters recently.”
Only stunned? It’s too bad they are not all falling over dead. At least they couldn’t “vote” for him again. And I do believe that’s coming.
glad someone else sees what i see.
Russia has a flat tax of just 14% and they don't tolerate queer shenanigans.
The comments at pando are treasures, and all are congratulating this nitwit that he’s moving to New York and not a conservative state.
What an odd little comment, I’d like to hear a bit more your wisdom.
Yup, do we really want this Einsteins in our state?
Yuh Soul Less Bastuhd!
You’re hurting the Chillun!
You ain’t got no heart.
Good riddance!
The Clinton administration won that lawsuit. Retroactive taxes are now allowed.
Seems very likely to me too. He probably even voted yes on prop 30, heheh.
“Twice I have voted for Barack Obama...”
Can’t figure out why this guy doesn’t want to share the wealth; maybe he should have read Das Kapital before he voted.
Hey, moron, “your” money belongs to The State.
“The Clinton administration won that lawsuit. Retroactive taxes are now allowed.”
I was wondering what happened there. I remember the retroactive tax increase, but never heard of a lawsuit. Did it make it to The Supremes?
>>Welcome to Texas! Do us a favor and tell any liberal friends you may have back in CA that the weather here sux and the mosquitoes are as big as armadillos. ;-)<<
I’d like to help you but I don’t HAVE any liberal friends! But I have already started that by seeding my conservative friends with that general idea...
Exactly right.
At least he is going to New York
Yes, it is possible, but for a true follower like this guy (voted for Obama twice) he has invested a lot into that ideology. You can change him, but be aware that people like this will defend the ideology while being killed by it.
Twice I have taken in a wolf with rabies, why am I now afraid of water?
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