LIBERAL CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS TAXING WOMEN, BABIES AND ELDERLY

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[bonesmccoy]

COMPLETE BILL HISTORY

BILL NUMBER : S.B. No. 204 AUTHOR : Perata TOPIC : Solid waste: personal care products: recycling.

TYPE OF BILL : Active Non-Urgency Appropriations Majority Vote Required Non-State-Mandated Local Program Fiscal Non-Tax Levy

BILL HISTORY 2003 Mar. 20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to committee. Mar. 19 Set for hearing April 7. Feb. 25 To Com. on ENV. QUAL. Feb. 14 From print. May be acted upon on or after March 16. Feb. 13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX SB 204 in the 2003-2004 Session

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0201-0250/sb_204_bill_20030320_amended_sen.html

[bonesmccoy]

This bill levels a new tax on all personal care products.

This means that all feminine hygeine products, diapers, waterproof bedding, and similar products will require:

1. Special separation from all waste by all homes, hospitals, and medical clinics 2. Special tax to send money to Waste Management and other trash haulers 3. Tax is 0.0025 on each "personal care product" (no factor included on how the businesses are supposed to collect this tax).

[Munson]

I have an idea. How about a tax on sex toys. This would get the liberals mad like crazy. .005 on each "adult device".

[jigsaw]

Unreal! Next, Californians will have to buy centrifuges to separate their urine into various components for proper disposal.

[NormsRevenge]

Perata has a real fixation with taxing damn near everything. Incredible! Is govt that essential to life that we and our pocketbooks must become nothing more then slaves to doofuses like this.

[Popof8]

I have a suggestion!!!
Send all used feminine hygeine products, diapers, waterproof bedding, and similar products to your California state senator or assembly person. If Gov. 'Joe' Gray Davis signs such a tax into law - send all the used hygeine products to him instead!!!

[bonesmccoy]

Looks like it's coming up on a Senate hearing.

I guess we can watch and see what the California Senate democrats will stoop to.

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CURRENT BILL STATUS


MEASURE : S.B. No. 204
AUTHOR(S) : Perata, Alpert, Kuehl, and Romero (Coauthors: Assembly
Members Hancock, Harman, Longville, and Steinberg).
TOPIC : Solid waste: personal care products: recycling.
HOUSE LOCATION : SEN
+LAST AMENDED DATE : 03/20/2003


TYPE OF BILL :
Active
Non-Urgency
Appropriations
Majority Vote Required
Non-State-Mandated Local Program
Fiscal
Non-Tax Levy

LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 03/20/2003
LAST HIST. ACTION : From committee with author's amendments. Read second
time. Amended. Re-referred to committee.
COMM. LOCATION : SEN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
COMM. ACTION DATE : 03/20/2003
COMM. ACTION : Author's amendments.
HEARING DATE : 04/07/2003

TITLE : An act to add Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 42580)
to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to solid waste, and making an appropriation
therefor.

[bonesmccoy]

I'd like to send the entire Senate Committee a bunch of diapers from our medical offices.

We could stack the used diapers up and send them by US postal service...but I'd think we could get prosecuted by Joe Davis for sending "biohazardous medical waste" through "unauthorized" packages.

RECALL GRAY DAVIS

[The Westerner]

I'd like to know how they plan to police this one?

[bonesmccoy]

well...i'm sure it would spawn a bunch of whining PSA's with Hollywood "actors" and "actresses".... LOL

I can hear it now:

"Hi... I'm Ben Affleck ... right now the mean spirited, right-wing extremists are attempting to limit my creative spirit."

BARF

[green team 1999]

but i tought the mean spirited republicans are the one`s who hurt the elderly,women and children!(sarcasm off).
but all along was the democrats and emperor davies.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

LOL!

[O Neill]

...Californians will have to buy centrifuges to separate their urine into various components...

Perhaps you missed the (quite serious) proposal at the recent environmental Summit...a call for the world's population to begin immediately an urgent program to recycle human perspiration and urine, in order to conserve our water resources and reduce Global Warming. Oh yes. Truth is often stranger than fiction.

[bonesmccoy]

LOL

I never thought of that... how do you police the diaper waste?

I'm sure the local sheriff loves that....

"Uhh... Boss... I found a doo doo in the diaper..."

"no...that's not doo doo, that's just chocolate..."

"oh yeah? you wanna test it?"

"Let's ask for "expert testimony"... call the district attorney and ask him what we should do"

(Sheriff calls DA)

"Hello Tony?"

"Yeah Mike?"

"I found some doo doo in a diaper...what am I supposed to do?"

"Book 'em Mike"

(Sheriff hangs up phone, calls only remaining doctor in town)

"sorry doc, I have to book you."

"But, Sheriff, It's just a diaper"

"I know Doc... I know... but I didn't write the law."

"For crying out loud, Sheriff, we're a doctor's office and the diaper ended up in the wrong pail"

"Yeah, but it's an illegal diaper and it ended up in the trash Doc."

"Sheriff, I paid that tax on the diaper."

"Doc... the law is the law... you can't have doo doo in a diaper in California... it's been outlawed by the State Senate."

[The Westerner]

What's even more insane is the docile populace that will go for this. Perhaps this is the step too far...when mommies have to get out a fourth trashcan for diapers. But if these democrats in California really want to incur the wrath of the voter, let them single out SUVs for special treatment!

[scubadave]

Wrath of the voter? Not in the Republic of Del Norte, unfortunately.

Such a vast reservoir of democrat voters (gov't emps, unions, dropouts, aging dopers-in-diapers, students, gays, legal, illegal, felons, homeless, gang-bangers). Most of them do not own SUVs, live off wealthy benefactors or are seething with class envy. Now, if we tax Viagra, gerbils and condoms, well there might be another violent SF protest :)

What's even more insane is the docile populace that will go for this. Perhaps this is the step too far...when mommies have to get out a fourth trashcan for diapers. But if these democrats in California really want to incur the wrath of the voter, let them single out SUVs for special treatment!

[scubadave]

Don Perata's email address for those in the Democratic Socialist Republic of California:
don.perata@sen.ca.gov

[Munson]

But this idea would protest the absurdity of Democrats trying to tax evreything.

"Demonstrating Absurdity by being absurd"

[Phantom Lord]

Let us not forget that California tried to levy a property tax on satellites in outer space if the company that owned them had a presence in California!

They truly do want a tax on everything.

[reformed_dem]

Are they going to ask for volunteers to go through the garbage looking for this stuff? I'm sure they'll be lining up around the block for that job.

[T Lady]

Just another good reason to literally "clean" out the 'Rat's nest in Sacremento in November 2004.

-Regards, T.