Posts Tagged ‘Taxes’

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The Slidebar Café
122 East Commonwealth Ave.
Fullerton CA 92832
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The Slidebar Café is located in the Fullerton Transportation Center. Take your car, take the train or take the bus. Whatever you do take the time to come out and be [...]

The Senate and Assembly have passed the budget.
Legalized extortion?
It’s time to mobilize and kick them all out!  The first one to be Able Maldonado.
– Updated 2/19/2009 at 8AM

What Maldonado got in return for his vote (from SacBee):

A constitutional amendment establishing an open primary system.
The measure will place on the June 2010 ballot an open primary proposal affecting congressional [...]

The Capital Weekly is reporting that “California labor unions, business associations and other interest groups spent more than $558 million – about $764,000 a day –  to influence California government during the 2007-08 legislative session, according to state records analyzed by Capitol Weekly.” Capitol Weekly: Interest groups’ lobbying tally tops $500 million.
No wonder the leaked [...]

In the middle the December I emailed Governor Schwarzenegger informing him what I felt about the states spending problem and to tel him that a fix involving taxes was not the answer.  Today I received the following generic reply.
Thank you for writing to share your thoughts with me about the proposed tax increase to balance [...]

It is now official.  The Franchise Tax Board has been told by State controller John Chiang (chung) not to send any more refund requests because his office will be unable to process them before Feb. 1st, dooms day.
In a world of tumbling stocks, zero percent interest rates, stimulus packages and out of control corporate spending California State leaders want to raise our taxes, [...]

A proposal to raise the state tax on wine to a level more than six times higher..raise the tax on wine to 29.6 cents for a 750-milliliter bottle from 4 cents 
A six times higher tax on wine!  Not only are we depressed about the economy and our incompetent state leadership we will be forced to pay a [...]

Yesterday the governor gave is State of the State speed to both houses of representatives.  Unlike years before he did not focus on the plans for the next year he focused on basically telling the legislators that nothing should be done until the over $40 billion deficit in the budge is closed.   He urged representatives “to [...]

Creating jobs at the expense of the economy in the state?  I don’t think so!
if the article  is true then Schwarzenegger will be going against everything he told us in 2006.  He has flip-flopped so many times on fiscal issues it is not even funny.  I bet soon he will raise the vehicle license fee, the [...]

But registering vehicles will cost everyone more – a jump that began this month but will hit families throughout 2009 as renewals become due.
They are going to bleed us to death!  See the fee increases below.  Note that these are fees associated with state services and tickets given by state police.

$35 for traffic tickets, including [...]