California wants to tax CRT tubes $30. (link provided)

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[madison46]

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[DoughtyOne]

I want you to think about this long and hard. If you write off California who's next? Are you going to write off Texas as demographics down there change? Are you going to eventually write off New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, Washington and other states as well?

If California, as state of 33 million people can be overrun, changed forever, how long do you think it will take for states with 1.5 million to be overrun? Your strategy will wind you up with the original 13 colonies sooner or later, much sooner than you relize. But even that wouldn't do it. Mass., Conn., and other states would be too socialist for you too.

Look, we've got to find ways to retake lost ground. Otherwise this nation turns to swiss cheese.

[SheLion]

Look, we've got to find ways to retake lost ground. Otherwise this nation turns to swiss cheese.

You don't understand. I am laughing to keep from crying. This IS happening all over the U.S. Lawmakers passing laws "for our own good." Raising taxes so high that the little person has a hard time putting food on the table, let alone finding money for prescriptions.

This is NO joke! And I pray with all my heart that SOMEONE can come up with an idea to save us all!

[DoughtyOne]

On that we certainly agree. I am as upset and perplexed about this as you are. Just thinking about the Department of Education drives me absolutely balistic.

[DoughtyOne]

Nope. Just the opposite needs to take place. We need to flood this state with conservative people. We're in the mess we are now because way too many good people did just what you said. Look what's left. The last twenty years we've had millions of good folks pack up and relocate. That's the problem.

[Jagdgewehr]

Tax CRT at $30.00? per unit?

Sure. Why not? The Kalifornia Politicheskoe Buro's thinking here is, "Who is going to care? Who is even going to notice?" "Excessively tax and levy fees on things that the people of California won't really notice. So what if the price of a new TV is $30.00 more expensive?"

[dennisw]

This means televsion sets and computer monitors.............

[Jonathon Spectre]

Nope. Just the opposite needs to take place. We need to flood this state with conservative people. We're in the mess we are now because way too many good people did just what you said. Look what's left. The last twenty years we've had millions of good folks pack up and relocate. That's the problem.

Not too many people from West Germany wanted to move into East Germany.

[timestax]

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[Republicus2001]

Is there a treatment center for these politicians suffering from taxaholism?

[Republicus2001]

I want to know at what age Grey Davis took his first tax?

If he's still in denial he might want to seek out a meeting of Taxaholics Amongallofus

[edger]

California is not a net provider in the tax roles. The US govt spends more money in California than California sends to Washington. Has been the case for a very long time.

Massachusetts is another egg-suckin' state. The US could profitably get along without either.

[DoughtyOne]

Look Jonathon, if it makes you feel better to think of California as East Germany, go for it. That's not reality. It's an insult to the East Germans and what they went through to make such a claim.

[ECM]

Ya know, I never thought of this before, but it's kinda funny (sad, not haha): they'll jack up our taxes, take our money, then give it back to us on things like prescription medicine, etc. thus making us more dependent on them while painting themselves in a positive light to the average pinhead voter. Forget the fact that we wouldn't need their largesse (our largesse, I guess) if they didn't dip into our pockets as deeply as they do right now.

Makes me sorta sick just thinking about it.

[DoughtyOne]

I'd have to see the figures that back that up. Which states are paying California's way? Where do you think the feds get the big bucks, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Idaho, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa? They don't have the bucks to spare. It's my premise that without California these states would have problems they don't forsee at this time. If you can prove differently, I'm certainly willing to give it a look.

[Jonathon Spectre]

The point is, you are saying people should move back en masse to a place that is arguably one of the least free in the nation. Very few people who care about their freedom are going to do this. "Well, I'll go somewhere I can't own a gun, and let them confiscate even more of my income in order to give it to illegal immigrants in the hope that after a while that will stop happening."

Pfffft. Get out and let it collapse. Leave it to those who want something for nothing, and those who want to give it to them.

[SheLion]

Massachusetts is another egg-suckin' state

And MAINE! Don't forget MAINE!

[watcher1]

Is there a treatment center for these politicians

I wish there was

[goldstategop]

The Rats are binging on taxes. Now while the going is good. GrayDown may not be around much longer to help them. First crank up cigarette taxes, now slap on a tax on broken CRT computer monitors destined for the land refill. A dollar here and a dollar there and now you're talkin' real money! And no, the Rats are not considering a permanent spending limit.