Posted on 01/13/2013 9:52:14 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
This is a prime example of government at its WORST.
I am hopeful that messes such as this will be fixed because we now have Democrat control of all three branches of government: the Assembly, Senate AND the Governorship. (psst...snark)
Taxing the life out of the workers one law at a time. I’d leave that Death Spiral in a heartbeat if I lived there.
Call the board of equalization three times, ask the same question, get three different and contradictory answers. That’s been my experience with them, especially in dealing with special taxes such as this lumber one. Worse, the retailers will have to search for the rare forms that apply to the special taxes which are not to be entered on the standard sales tax report.
For a family hardware store that has a little lumber for projects, this is a nightmare of a tax. I hope, whatever they do, they do not ever tell the state that they simply included the taxes in the price of the lumber.
You Californians should switch to plastic toothpicks, and buy plastic pens instead of wooden pencils.....
“The Board of Equalization”.. Sounds so Orwellian because it is. Govt is now officially tyrranical.
LOL!
Get out of that toilet. Do it now.
Run, don’t walk.
Don’t be “the last white farmer in Zimbabwe”.
Our careers are here and it’s not that easy to change at age 61...but we are definitely counting the days!
The REAL killer to our retirement is Obastard and commiecrats. We just lost a good chunk of our retirement with all the tax law changes the bastards just enacted (we still have an appreciated California house in Silicon Valley). It’s going to make our retirement MUCH MUCH harder now. And I’m afraid they aren’t done transferring our wealth to the Obama Boys.
Not by a long shot. It is what they exist to do, their sole mission.
You hit the nail on the head.
The policy that Obama has espoused since the 2008 campaign is that those who have wealth, whether earned by hard work and frugal living or by inheritance or by luck, must transfer that wealth to him and his elitist corps of socialist intellectuals who will distribute it to those they deem worthy of public largess. It is all a big scam since those judged worthy are those who support him and his political ambitions (Unions (GM), greenies (solyandra), entitlement dependents, etc.). This is AKA “sticking it to the man!” except that the “man” is now anyone who has something of value that can be confiscated by the state.
Kalipornia is never going to “come back”
Right before the New Year the Board of Equalization sent out notices to contractors that they now have to collect this tax if they use wood in their projects.
We got the notice because we used to do roofing.
Luckily we no longer do roofing but I guess they are sending the notice to all contractors even if you no longer fall in their specified category.
It was quiet a shock to see this new “assessment”.
Especially after being hit with the new Fire Tax.
They have to sell 100 million dollars worth of lumber each year JUST to pay for the extra government cost of implementing the tax.
Coincidental you mention her.. I was finally able to see Part 1 of “Atlas Shrugged”.
Can’t wait to see Part 2...
Oops.. forgot to mention I saw it (Part 1) only about 3 hours ago..
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