Tag: taxes

Budget and Taxes

February, 2018

I was listening to NPR on the way to work today.  NPR, you may think means National Public Radio, but it doesn’t.  It means National Platform for Ridiculousness.

I listen because I want to know what the enemy is doing.

So, it was about all these liberals complaining about the excessively high budget and taxes Congress and Trump were passing.  I know, I know.  Who’d of thought liberals would complain about high taxes and a big budget, but they were.  They interviewed this “expert” about what the American people thought about such abuses.  He said something to the effect,

“When our country was beginning there was a Boston Tea Party to protest the excessive taxes coming out of Washington.”

No pause, that might have indicated that he realized that Washington (or America for that matter) didn’t exist at that time or that the beef was with the King of England.

Why do physicians get sued even when they did the right thing correctly, and idiots like this are allowed to spew stupid gibberish like this?

Your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave.  All childish invectives used in this post are appropriate and true.

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/09/584640265/bipartisan-budget-agreement-spends-too-much-money-for-most-conservative-republic

Weary

Stoned and Stupid

January, 2018

Do you know why California legalized recreational use of marijuana?  No, stop.  Don’t answer that question.  At this point it is a rhetorical question.

Did you know that California is one of the highest state income tax states in the US.  Yeah well, they just instituted a new Gift Tax Relief Program.  Here is how it works.  For every dollar you earn, California normally takes about 13.3 cents.  But under the new Gift Tax Relief Program, if you give that dollar to the state, California will not tax that dollar. What a deal!

The 2018 California state tax rate table shows that for a single head of household earning $0, the effective tax rate is 1%.  (Yup, California is right up there with the Common Core Math Method that is driving everyone crazy with it’s stupidity.)  And the top California state tax rate is supposedly 13.3%.

Oh yeah, and something else you probably didn’t know. The spokesman for the new Gift Tax Relief Program mentioned above commented that what is good for California is good for the US, because California is the driving force for the US economy.

Now we can revisit the original question. Do you know why California legalized recreational use of marijuana? Well yes, the sanctioned sales of all that weed does generate more tax dollars, but…

To enforce this madness, California needs to keep it’s population stoned and stupid.

Just your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave’s opinion.