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Car Dealers Fear State Tax Increases Will Put The Brake On Sales
LA Times ^
| February 21, 2009
Posted on 02/21/2009 11:13:16 AM PST by Steelfish
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posted on
02/21/2009 11:13:16 AM PST
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
Ve haff vays of making you people ride der bus. |
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posted on
02/21/2009 11:16:05 AM PST
by
Nick Danger
(www.swiftvets.com)
To: Steelfish
Stop the presses...you mean higher taxes don’t stimulate the economy and fuel growth in sales! What about the economic boom in 1993 after Clinton’s tax increases...did the media tell a fib?
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posted on
02/21/2009 11:17:32 AM PST
by
JrsyJack
(Oh dem golden slippers!!)
To: JrsyJack
My advice to those who can afford a vehicle in California and the gas to operate it: Get out while you can. Pack your belongings into the vehicle and drive east before they erect barriers to anyone who can earn an income yet is trying to leave. Someone has to pay the bills for the illegals and various government parasite groups and if you don't leave, it will be YOU.
I did it a few years back and have not looked back.
Vince
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posted on
02/21/2009 11:26:18 AM PST
by
Mouton
To: Steelfish
the tax increase just stopped my purchase of a new car will drive my 98 sable into the ground and then wear out my f-150
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posted on
02/21/2009 11:27:24 AM PST
by
mt tom
(high in the sierras looking down into the garden spot of the world)
To: Steelfish
In other words: tax everybody else, just don't tax my business.
Years ago, when ol' Meathead (Rob Reiner) proposed increasing taxes on tobacco and alcohol to fund children's healthcare (obviously Meathead is a user of neither of these products), I counter-proposed that thay also put a tax on movie theater tickets to help the poor children.
I never heard if ol' Meathead though this was a good idea or not. I wonder what he thinks?
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posted on
02/21/2009 11:32:22 AM PST
by
jeffc
(They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
To: Steelfish
To: Steelfish
The Dems in California enacted mostly regressive taxes. The one cent increase in the sales tax is terribly regressive. Then throw in doubling the car tax. And the increase in the gas tax. These all hit the poor the hardest. I thought democrats just wanted to soak the rich? What happened?!
To: Mouton
My advice to those who can afford a vehicle in California and the gas to operate it: Get out while you can.A friend told me that a person who retires on a California state pension has to live in California or lose the pension. Does anyone know if that is true? I don't think that is the case in my state.
To: Nick Danger
Ve haff vays of making you people ride der bus. Going to be mighty difficult here. A few months ago they took away our twice-daily service (6 AM into town, 6 PM back). My wait for the next bus to come along is probably measured in years.
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posted on
02/21/2009 11:50:06 AM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | REAL Stimulus: Apply paddles, shout "CLEAR!")
To: mt tom
the tax increase just stopped my purchase of a new car will drive my 98 sable into the ground and then wear out my f-150 I generally retire my vehicles at about 250k miles. I have about another 100k to go on my '92 Suzuki Tracker.
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posted on
02/21/2009 11:53:15 AM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | REAL Stimulus: Apply paddles, shout "CLEAR!")
To: Mouton
Smart damn advice if you aks me.....
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posted on
02/21/2009 11:56:01 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: Steelfish
Kalifornia is committing suicide with these tax hikes.
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posted on
02/21/2009 12:01:47 PM PST
by
Baladas
((ABBHO))
To: Steelfish
Part of the liberal plan to force you to stop driving. We’re living at the hands of petty dictators.
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posted on
02/21/2009 12:07:04 PM PST
by
popdonnelly
(I went to an Obama Townhall and threw away my crutches!)
To: Steelfish
Cut back on entitlements and send the illegals back to Mexico.
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posted on
02/21/2009 12:08:41 PM PST
by
popdonnelly
(I went to an Obama Townhall and threw away my crutches!)
To: sionnsar
I have about another 100k to go on my '92 Suzuki Tracker. I have no complaints on my '96 Sidekick except that the front seals have a propensity to go out, requiring the timing belt to be replaced. Have seen the same thing on other Suzuki/Geo three and four cylinder motors. Other than that, they seem rather bulletproof given normal maintenance.
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posted on
02/21/2009 12:14:20 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: ExtremeUnction
Not enough stupid rich folks left to tax. With a $42B hole to close (so they say - I believe it’s closer to $50B), you could jack up the top end rate to 100% and not even come close.
The smart ones either moved out of state completely, or are domiciled out-of-state and still living in CA in their “second homes”.
Personally, this scrubs the plans we had to replace our two cars (one nine and the other seven years old) this year. From what I hear from other folks, lots of rumblings about cutting back on taxable purchases and/or moving out of state.
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posted on
02/21/2009 12:18:25 PM PST
by
Strzelec
(Soon, folks are going to find out who this John Galt guy really is...)
To: Steelfish
Guess those dealers are either going to have to sell the public on the idea that sales tax on a new car is now deductable as an adjustment to income, or they’re going to have to eat a few hundred more bucks per car.
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posted on
02/21/2009 12:23:52 PM PST
by
hunter112
(SHRUG - Stop Hussein's Radical Utopian Gameplan!)
To: Steelfish
They WILL NOT CUT SPENDING. They just keep RAISING TAXES.
The strategy seems to be DIG the HOLE even DEEPER.
To: Mouton
Pack your belongings into the vehicle and drive east ...But you must make a solemn oath to make sure that what happens in Kah-lee-for-neeya stays in Kah-lee-for-neeya!
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posted on
02/21/2009 12:33:27 PM PST
by
uglybiker
(AAAAAAH!!! I'm covered in BEES!)
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