Please don't give them any ideas....
Posted on 12/29/2013 7:01:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Kevin Sorbo, the actor best known for his role as television’s Hercules, apparently likes to rage against government on Facebook. Who knew?
In one of his latest posts, the Californian takes umbrage with a decree from self-styled Olympians governing from Sacramento:
Oh, did I mention that the State of California, where I reside, has a bill on the table to tax/fine anyone who decides to leave California for another state or country. True story. Fine you for moving to another state!! WTF!! Maybe I can sneak out on a boat to Mexico.
In a cursory search, I was not able to find anything to substantiate this claim, though I have no trouble believing it. Such a proposal has been made before, and the Left has demonstrated on more than one occasion their willingness to punish or ban interstate relocation. Recall the National Labor Relations Board strong-arming Boeing when the aircraft manufacturer sought respite from Washington state’s smothering labor climate in right-to-work South Carolina? That ended only after Boeing capitulated to the NLRB’s extortion and threw a bone to the unions.
Fundamentally, only one difference exists between such actions and the Soviet Union’s construction of the Berlin Wall. That difference is a matter of degree. A tax on relocated wealth or an NLRB fine acts to deter escape from progressive utopia. The Berlin Wall merely dropped the pretense and made imprisonment within political borders obvious.
Those who propose such taxes, or otherwise seek to keep individuals and companies from voting with their feet, ought to be aggressively challenged utilizing the Berlin Wall comparison. Why did the free world oppose the Berlin Wall? What made that wall immoral? How does that differ from any government action to punish expatriation? Modern tyrants must be thus exposed.
Maybe they’ll use the tax dollars to build a fence to everybody in, like they do around grave yards.
So HOTEL CALIFORNIA really is about the STATE of CALIFORNIA...
“Papers, please.”
Such a bill was proposed in 2008. Thankfully, it has gone nowhere. But I guess with so many people leaving the once Golden State, and the state itself being TOTALLY CONTROLLED by Democrats at all levels, I think the bill might be revived.
SEE HERE FOR THE PREVIOUS PROPOSED CALIFORNIA DEPARTURE TAX:
http://www.conservativecrusader.com/articles/exit-stage-left-california-s-proposed-departure-tax
California, the “Roach Motel,” you can check in but you can’t check out.
I seem to remember CA used to tax retirements of people who left the state. CA lost that in court sometime in the 90’s.
With that in mind, maybe they’ll start charging a visitor’s tax. Anyone who flies in to CA will have the tax added to their ticket or you pay the tax when you cross in to CA and have to stop at those border fruit checkpoints.
In the past CA passed a law saying if a retiree moved out of State when they retired they had to pay CA State income tax on their retirement savings. Federal law struck it down, and it still irks the public employee unions.
“...when you cross in to CA and have to stop at those border fruit checkpoints.”
Which begs the question...How did so many get past the checkpoints?
Precluding this sort of tax is exactly the purpose for which the Commerce Clause was written.
The communists have to force people to stay because the grass is always greener anywhere but under their tyranny.
It is coming
Lolololol!! Trade places with the takers/spongers.
The three pillars of progressive mass murder. We must be
1. Silenced
2. Disarmed
3. Immobilized
“With that in mind, maybe they’ll start charging a visitor’s tax”
Uhh, they already do. The $50/day rental car costs about $80 after all the fees; some are a visitor tax essential.
Yes they did. Furthermore, they tried to tax portions of retirments earned in california upon those living elsewhere. Lastly, they tried to tax multinationals on their world wide income. The franchise tax board is worse than the IRS and the Mafia combined.
Gotta like Kevin Sorbo. At least my home state exported one person to Hollywood who wasn’t a loony lefty.
I got a 1800 tax bill from CA after I left.
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