During the presidential campaign, Biden claimed that paying higher taxes is being patriotic. So all you tax-loving patriotic citizens, here is your chance to be more patriotic. Move to California for these exciting new proposed taxes!!
Vehicle license fees would nearly double, going from the current rate of 0.65% to 1.15% of the value of a car or truck. The sales tax would increase by 1 cent, raising the rate in Los Angeles County to 9.75%. Gasoline taxes would increase by 12 cents a gallon. And Californians would pay a new surcharge on their personal income taxes, amounting to 2.5% of their total tax bills.
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You hear that? A 2.5% surcharge on your total tax bill! I read that as a tax on your taxes!
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If I am not mistaken the California government is a micro version of the US government for the past 8 years. Republican governor/president and Democratically held House and Senate. Obviously this combo does not work on the national or state level.
That's all so rediculous! And a tax on your tax bill! That is ludicrus. I am all for paying my fair share of taxes, but wow...poor Californian's...they are really getting a raw deal.
Our taxes my suck but you can't beat the weather!
OOps... typo... redo...
Our taxes MAY suck, but you can't beat the weather!
Actually, the Republicans held the House, the Senate, and Presidency for part of those years. I can't remember the exact election cycles. I am tempted to say that the Senate was Republican under Bush through 06 and the House through 04. If I am right, that means that Bush had every thing at his dispoal for at least four year. Can anyone set this straight from memory?
Let Californians vote in the Republican Party then!
Or let Californians mandate many fewer services and subsequent tax reduction!
Although the R party held control of the Senate for many years, it is only quasi control. As we all know, the threshold for any vote in the senate is 60 votes, so the R party was not able to get much done because the D party was filibustering everything, including judicial appointments, which was not traditional done.
As for California, the only answer is to reduce services. The main role of government is to keep citizens safe (which includes infrastructure), most anything else can be reduced or eliminated. Examples include endowments for the arts and cutting bloated bureaucracy.
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If I had to choose between permanent good weather and lower taxes, I would always choose lower taxes.
The tax isn't that high all over California. My county tax is 7.25%. We do not pay tax on food. What do you guys pay?
Our taxes can vary by counties as well. Restaurant taxes are higher in Salt Lake County than in other counties for example, but the entire state pays the same sales tax on food purchases. Naturally property taxes are localized affairs.
I think that with the arrival of the quite real 'cultural wars', the filibuster became very valuable, hence the intense vetting of judges. Beyond that, partisanship has become acute, as acute as I can remember it in my lifetime. Our constant comments on our own family blog bear this out.
Of course, we have been alive only plus/minus 50 years. So in our lifetimes, yes, it has become very partisan. (I think conservative finally woke up in the 80's (thanks to Reagan) and said "Wait a minute here...")
Over a longer period of our nation's history, partisanship has be the rule rather than the exception.
Lincoln was a highly partisan president who even wielded power to imprison his enemies.
Remember the Burr-Hamilton duel between the former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and sitting Vice President Aaron Burr. Burr shot and killed Hamilton.
The Civil War was all about irreconcilable partisanship between the North and the South.
Excellent points, Alan.
I recall that as a young man, there was a notion, and a sincere one I believe, that once an election was over a certain determined unity took hold. I don't perceive that to be the case now. But I was very young, maybe not very thoughtful or observant. Perhaps it wasn't so even then as I perceived it to be. Interesting to note that I was born only 9 years after the end of WW II. Unity maybe still ruled the day because of the necessary of pulling together during wartime.
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