O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

21 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

1. I find it very interesting that I cannot view the Forbes site without agreeing to disable my adblocker software. Perfect illustration of “you can check out any time you want, but you can never leave”.
   Screw you Forbes and the goat you rode in on!!!

   1. Use Firefox then you can toggle to the readeer mode that cuts all pictures, ads. etc and you can just see the text. It also blocks the sort of thing Forbes did to prevent you from reading it.

      1. Robert I use the reading mode a lot. It is standard on my computer without downloading anything.

      2. also, try the ‘cache’ version if available. I use that to bypass online newspaper ‘login’ crap.

   2. NoScript works pretty well for getting around that…at least for now.

      As for the article, if I was going to have anything to do with California, my residence would be a post office box in Wyoming.

   3. John. If you press the ‘ESC’ key just before the page loads, you are able to get in. I run an adblocker too and refuse to disable it but I found this works for every site that requires it.

2. Just publishing about this POS means you’re subject to California taxes, Kate. The taxman will have his due – just ask the Beatles,,,

3. California’s oligarchs are clearly quite happy to have Sacramento chase the tax-peons who fled to Nevada, Arizona, Florida and Texas to the world’s end.

   The same bastards get pissy about having to surrender their US passports if they’re serious about moving to Monaco or Switzerland or Singapore to evade US federal taxes.

   AND getting the first proper audit of their accounts in their entire adult lives, because even the mouthbreathers at the IRS know the scumbags didn’t earn their billions honestly, or pay more than a small fraction of the taxes due on their ill-gotten gains. Audits are for troublemakers like Donald Trump who piss off their betters. Not the oligarchs who can throw a billion dollars at a single presidential campaign in lieu of coughing up their fair share.

4. I have no sympathy. They voted for the high taxes, they voted to be a sanctuary state, they deserve all the pain they suffer.

   1. Did it ever occur to you that people who did not vote for taxes and alien invasion are the very people who are moving out and Californicate is still trying to tax them after they leave? Of course it did not. Such thought would glitch your binary brain.

5. California is like the canary in the coal mine for what is in store for Kanada with the Pride Parade Grand Marshall/Mosque creeping POS, virtue signaler and Butt-head running the program. Just renewed my Sirius XM subscription this morning and was advised that the “music royalty tax” is increasing about from 13% to 17 or 18% in January of 2020. Twice I said to the agent, oh good another day another Trudeau tax hike, before she sheepishly said, yes. Likely she was thinking, it was all Trump’s fault for the increase, or Harper.
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6. Actually California is not as sticky as the federal government itself. US persons (citizens, holders of “green cards”‘, and people who reside more than 180 days) must file taxes with the IRS no mater where on the planet they reside. They must also report annually on all their foreign held financial account information. For an expat to relinquish his status (as a US person), there is a cumbersome and expensive procedure to endure.

7. Thank God I’m not in those income tax brackets. I often wonder what someone like LeBron James pays in CA taxes? It cannot be worth living near Hollywood.

   1. Oh come on, Kenji. You think that bastard pays taxes? Only fools and crackers do that. There is an entire industry devoted to helping the likes of LeBron James evade taxes.

      Rest assured that the poor bastard who guards the gate of LeBron’s mansion pays more in taxes than his boss.

   2. My response to CA would be ok, just try and collect.

8. U-Haul rates for a 26 foot truck – 3/4 bedroom house – today – right now:

   Sacramento CA to Boise ID – $3,068.00

   Boise, ID to Sacramento, CA – $281.00

   Think about that – UHaul is basically saying, “Please take this truck back to the 3rd World country – 553 miles away.
   I mean 50 cents a mile?

   1. You’d be better to buy a used 5 ton and sell it when you get to your destination. I know a few people that have done that for cross Canada moves and they’ve either broke even or made a little on the truck resale.

   2. I rented a 1-way U-Haul from Phoenix AZ to N.CA when I cleaned up my grandmothers estate in 1999 … right at the beginning of the dot.con implosion … and they virtually PAID me to take their Box truck.

9. California had a great idea, many years ago, to tax visiting athletes for the few days they worked in California. Worked fine until every other jurisdiction passed the same tax. Even states without income tax ding visiting athletes. Now it’s all just part of the paperwork blizzard. Tax increases are minimally effective because people reorganize their affairs to pay less tax. In the meantime you likely catch a few not-so-rich people who can’t afford tax consultants.

   1. Indeed. The world’s highest paid athletes are always getting shaken down by socialist empires who disembody their tax shelter schemes …
      https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2018/06/28/8-soccer-players-at-the-world-cup-who-have-been-caught-up-in-tax-scandals/#7a333cb3b29c
      Deep pockets. Cash cows for the Socialists who redistribute chunks of their massive incomes to the poor. Ha! And if you believe that … I’ll show you the luxury villas of the politburo elites.

10. You know, if the Texas governor actually cared, couldn’t he declare that Texas was a California tax sanctuary state?

    I mean, if Mexicans get to live there indefinitely, get free healthcare, get to vote, but never have to file a tax return, … why should anyone else?

    #NewRules time for some tax lawfare.