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Kasz216 on 18 January 2013

http://www.businessinsider.com/california-entrepreneurs-retroactive-tax-2013-1

California is essentially retroactivly raising taxes.  They've done this before... when they retroactivly changed the classifications of some businesses.  Now they're just outright retroactivly raising taxes.


Can anyone actually defend this?


EDIT: Oh, also you have to pay interest.  So you have to pay interest on a 2008 tax for not paying it in 2008 even though it didn't exist until 2013.



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badgenome on 18 January 2013

"Because fuck you, that's why."



Kasz216 on 18 January 2013
badgenome said:
"Because fuck you, that's why."


No I think the "because fuck you, that's why" part is the fact that Califoria is also charging interest.

 

So you have to pay interest on your taxes in 2008 that you didn't pay because they didn't even exist until 2013.  



NiKKoM on 18 January 2013

damn... I have all these Arnold Schwarzenegger animated gifs and i can't use them... so unfair



 

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badgenome on 18 January 2013
Kasz216 said:

No I think the "because fuck you, that's why" part is the fact that Califoria is also charging interest.

 

So you have to pay interest on your taxes in 2008 that you didn't pay because they didn't even exist until 2012.  

Oh yeah. I didn't even notice you left that part out of the OP. How could you?!

When Jerry Brown said there needed to be more welfare and fewer jobs, he fucking meant it.



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thranx on 18 January 2013

ca is a shining example of what happens when the welfare state gets too big. its a mess, too many regulations, too much welfare, too much corruption, all the fault of big government. You think the other 49 states would look at ca and realize that a small government is the answer.



Barozi on 18 January 2013
NiKKoM said:
damn... I have all these Arnold Schwarzenegger animated gifs and i can't use them... so unfair

NSFW or too big ?

If it's the latter, that's only valid for sigs. Though you shouldn't post all of them in one thread either.



thranx on 18 January 2013

I hope that someone challenges in court. I doubt they would win in a CA court but someone should at least try and challenge it, at least the retroactive part, that can't be legal.



Mr Khan on 18 January 2013

Whatever one's opinion on taxes may be, i would think that this in particular is unconstitutional as an ex post facto law. This is the sort of thing that government should know better than to try, because it opens the door for all sorts of craziness.



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thranx on 18 January 2013
Mr Khan said:
Whatever one's opinion on taxes may be, i would think that this in particular is unconstitutional as an ex post facto law. This is the sort of thing that government should know better than to try, because it opens the door for all sorts of craziness.


CA politics for you. Probably some of the most corrupt government officials in the world work and live in CA. If it wasn't for its natural advantages as far as being a coastal state with ports and great farmland, and natural resources it would be an empty state.