Posted on 05/05/2017 6:32:57 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Liberals are salivating at the idea of taxing cars by the distance they travel, to better rake in money for their nefarious purposes. In California, they are taking the idea one step farther, planning to tax space rockets by the mile as well.
According to the proposal, California will collect tax from space transportation companies based on a formula factoring in how often a company launches spacecrafts out of the state, and, most importantly, how far a commercial spacecraft travels from California soil. Between May and mid-October, there were eight launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in Santa Barbara County about 50 miles south of San Luis Obispo.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Nothing like getting the cart before the horse. Only in California and liberals would time be spent on something like this.
What are they going to do about satellites in geosynchronous orbit? Technically they are not moving in respect to the ground. Do they travel any distance over the ground "away from California? How do they plan on measuring the milage?
Vandenberg is FEDERAL Territory. How are they going to tax something that leaves from a Federal Enclave? These tax everything that moves Democrats are idiots. You tax something that is capable of picking up stakes and moving is guaranteed to assure that it will pick up stakes and MOVE elsewhere where they are not being taxed.
CA really is the land of nuts and flakes.
Is it pot? Mudslides? Fires? The great scenery? Acid? Too much chardonnay? Avocado overindulgence?
What makes people out there so batcrap insane? Oregon may be just as bad.
It’s like they WANT SpaceX to pick up and move to Texas or Florida.
They can kiss the space industry goodbye because none of the businesses need put up with this nonsense.
With liberals, especially those in California, there is nothing that can’t be taxed.
No doubt that, they’ll figure out a way to tax the air that people breathe, on a per-hundred breaths taken on a given month, each hundred breaths costing 5 cents each. That would bring in hundreds of billions per year, and would easily eliminate the state’s debt, and would easily leave enough money to pay for all of Mexico to move north, and for the middle-east “refugees” to also be given new homes.
We already pay for the water we consume, and we actually already pay for the air we breathe via “clean air acts”, so, why not go all the way. What say you, California?
....they need more Zipcars
That sure won’t encourage innovation.
In the early 2000s, some Kali taxing authority tried to tax satellites.
A Federal court shot that down immediately.
ESAD Cali...or grow TF up.
There's a town in NH that did, or tried to, factor that into property taxes.
ROFLMAO!!!!!
That was hysterical.
They’re going to tax time travel by the number o years you go backwards or forwards.
“I see you have some money there. Give it to me.”
Just wait until they try to tax them for use of the, er, orbital "space" space as they pass over California...
Link did not work for me.
The Voyager flew around the world, TO and Landing at Edwards AFB.
Gov. Brown (Flush it) would like to tax that mileage, I’ll bet.
I might argue that TO and landing at the same location is a net distance of ZERO. Some math works that way.
My girlfriend and I figured out the problem long ago and have proposed a diagnosis code to be included in the next addenda to the International Diagnostic Code update. Here it is:
Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new IDC-10 addenda:
321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA), Complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.
You walk into the State legislature and you can hear it every where. "Splat!" Splat! splat! The sound of brains hitting the pavement.
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