Pumping Iron While California Burns
By Wyatt Earp | August 10, 2009
Is there an American politician worse than Arnold Schwarzenegger? I mean if there is, please tell me, but signs so far point to no. Now granted, he has a lot of help from his fellow idiots in the state legislature, but as the de facto head of the state, he takes most of the blame for its destruction.
Ah-nuld’s latest “big idea?” He wants to collect taxes on IOU’s awarded to small businesses. Yeah, you read that correctly. California wants people to pay taxes on monies they didn’t receive!
Oh, and for those of you who say I am not fair in my attacks, Governor Schwarzenegger is a big, beefy Republican.
Bruce McQuain calls this the theater of the absurd, but that implies humor and entertainment value. Unfortunately, California’s attempt to get hard cash in taxes based on payments to businesses it made with imaginary money is neither humorous or entertaining. It does demonstrate the complete disconnect from reality suffered by the state’s political class in Sacramento:
Oh, you might want to have the duct tape handy before you read any further. Just sayin’.
Small businesses that received $682 million in IOUs from the state say California expects them to pay taxes on the worthless scraps of paper, but refuses to accept its own IOUs to pay debts or taxes. The vendors’ federal class action claims the state is trying to balance its budget on their backs.
Lead plaintiff Nancy Baird filled her contract with California to provide embroidered polo shirts to a youth camp run by the National Guard, but never was paid the $27,000 she was owed. She says California “paid” her with an IOU that two banks refused to accept – yet she had to pay California sales tax on the so-called “sale” of the uniforms.
California wants Baird and her colleagues to pay taxes on money she never received. The state of California hasn’t paid her the money they owe her, but they want her to pay the money she owes them. In any other situation, a court would laugh this one right out the door, and perhaps the federal court will do so. Baird would have no chance at all in a state court. (H/T – Hot Air)
I have three words for Ms. Baird: Torches. And. Pitchforks.
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August 10th, 2009 at 7:10 am
IOU 1 comment.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Send them an IOU with a note that says when she gets paid, they will get paid. Hire a lawyer with the IOU and sue the State and charge them the legal expenses and deduct that from income as a cost of business. Pack up and leave California. MUD
August 10th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Just in case we needed proof of who is running the asylum in California. Guess that is what you get when you elect a RINO who is surrounded by DEMS at work and at home.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
I have three more words: Tar. And. Feathers.
August 10th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
“Is there an American politician worse than Arnold Schwarzenegger?”
Yes, and I’m surprised you didn’t pick up on it – Ed Rendell.
August 10th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”
-Edward Abbey
August 10th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Sully – Touche’.
Dennis – The last sentence was the clincher. They should leave CA.
MeToo – I blame them all equally. None of them had any decent ideas to fix the mess.
Raptor – How Revolutionary!
Mario – Well, he is so much worse than anything ever seen before in politics . . .
BobG – And California throws off the rest of the nation’s curve.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Proof politics rots the brain.
August 11th, 2009 at 3:40 am
*boom* That was my brain exploding.