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California Senate Approves Net Tax Bill

Posted by timothy on from the taxation-taxation-taxation dept.

Grant Erickson points to this internet.com story, which says "On Thursday, the California state Senate approved a bill that requires businesses with stores in the state to charge their customers sales tax for purchases made over the Internet." The state's huge ($35 billion) budget deficit is named as a driving force for the measure.

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  1. Huge budget deficit? by Surak · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Have these guys TAKEN math courses? There's two sides to this equation!

    Money_Taken_In - Money_Spent = Budget_Surplus_Or_Deficit

    Negative values of Budget_Surplus_Or_Deficit are deficits.

    Why don't they try SPENDING LESS rather than TAKING IN MORE?

    Oh, I forgot, the California is on the LEFT coast.

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  2. Thank God for Government! by Angry+White+Guy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Supporting an obviously failing model by increasing taxes. Lemmie think of the last few times that hppened.

    The American Revolution
    The signing of the Magna Carta

    It's time to sever the ties to California and push them into the ocean. They think that they're their own little country, bomb the San Andreas fault and make them one!

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  3. Money's a drug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    and like everybody else governments are addicted to it. With the current bad economy hurting collections, local governments everywhere are looking at increasing taxes, fees, and fines to fill in the gap created by their idiotically optimistic view that the surpluses of the 90's would continue forever.

    This just helps shift more of the burden of paying for our government onto the little guy. Better not get pulled over for speeding in the next few years -- unless you drive a BMW.

  4. Re:Recall Gray Davis by infonography · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ah, the 'Republican' solution. Seriously it's hardly his fault. P>California has a hugh stake in the tech industry, when it went down so did the rest of the Californian economy. Then there were your buddies at Enron & company. Price gouging and Mail Fraud does not an incompetent make. So who is slowing the refund and prosecution of the perpetrators? Hmmmm could it be a Texas Oil Baron turned President?

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