Comments on: Poll: Voters hesitant on potential 2016 tax hike initiatives

By: Dyspeptic

Dyspeptic — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:21:57 +0000

Getting state wide tax increases is easy in Stupidfornia. As Mr. Rider notes, you just tax unpopular minorities like cigarette smokers, rich folks or businesses. Stupidfornia voters are superficial, ignorant, complacent, self absorbed, gullible and morally compromised so it’s easy peasy to sell them on bad ideas.

Here are my ideas for some much needed tax increases –

Tax white people. Since white people are a disfavored and much reviled minority in this state it should be a slam dunk. And it’s a twofer because everyone knows that the Republican Party is the party of white people so it’s a tax on Republicans too. How sweet is that?

We could also tax heterosexuals, Christians and gun owners. Yes, I know, they’re not minorities but heck, everyone knows they are just plain evil.

And why not a tax on women who give birth instead of having an abortion, with the proceeds going directly to the baby butchering Feminazis at Planned Parenthood. This one could be marketed as an environmental tax since everyone knows the human race is a cancer on the planet. Of course Hispanic women who give birth should get a tax credit instead of a tax bill since they’re just creating more Democrat drone voters and we could always use more of them.

So many possibilities here, the mind simply boggles.

By: Just Another Disgruntled Citizen

Just Another Disgruntled Citizen — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:39:38 +0000

There is a fabulous book called “For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization” by Charles Adams that was first published in the 1990’s, is still in print.
It is a chronicle of tax policies instituted by cities, states, nations and empires going back to ancient Sumer, where the first recorded word for Liberty, “Amagi”, was found on a clay tablet that is 4,300 years old in a decree by King Urukagina that abolished both the taxes and the tax collectors that were destroying the country’s economy and people’s lives.
Unfortunately, after awhile the Sumerians had no revenue to support the army necessary to protect them from invasions by marauding neighbors and eventually a warlord from Babylon named Hamurabi came swooping down with his hordes and took over.
Incidentally, the Rule of Law Tradition goes back at least to Urukagina, who preceded Hamurabi by many, many years.

Now, if California voters could get some book-larnin’ on the Cause and Effect of too many taxes on their pursuit of happiness, maybe we would get somewhere.

“Knowledge is Power>” — James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, et al.

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 18:41:13 +0000

In reply to bob.

You are right about local tax increases, but not statewide taxes. Most fail.

So what the state tax proponents do is try to levy a new or higher tax on a minority of people — smokers, millionaires, businesses, etc.

For the Big Spenders, not enough people will vote to materially increase taxes on themselves.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 02:01:32 +0000

Most tax increases and bond measures pass, especially local ones.

Colliefornia voters are sheep and will do as they are told and vote to raise their taxes if that’s what the politicians and special interests tell them to do.

By: Spurwing Plover

Spurwing Plover — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 15:08:08 +0000

How about a Stupi Idea Tax to be paid by all these politicians who come up with these idiotic tax ideas and a Hot Air Tax to be paid by all those yammering about this Global Warming poppycock especialy Hollywood and Govenor Moonbeam as well as the varipus eco-freak groups