Just Another "you can't make it up" from California!

[andymays]

California: You owe us taxes on those IOUs

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/09/california-you-owe-us-taxes-on-those-ious/

Excerpt:


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.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[boxcar]

Now...that's creative financing. :lol: :lol:

Boxcar

[andymays]

Now...that's creative financing. :lol: :lol:

Boxcar


As California goes so goes the Nation! :bang:

[boxcar]

As California goes so goes the Nation! :bang:

King 'bama is having a summit with a few nations, including Mexico. Maybe he'll sell California to our friends to zee south of zee border to help pay down the national debt. :lol: :lol:

Boxcar
P.S. Another great side benefit to this is that Pelosi would be without a job. :jump: :jump:

[kenwoodallpromos]

California: You owe us taxes on those IOUs

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/09/california-you-owe-us-taxes-on-those-ious/

Excerpt:


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.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Wrong- In Ca, sales tax is charges for retail sales only. If the National Guard paid with IOU and part of that is for sales tax, then tax is not due until something counted as income is counted; I doubt thoise IOU's have to be counted because they are not legal tender like a check already cashed is. Until then it should be categorized as "non-tangible property".

[HUSKER55]

So you are saying a rubber check from the state of CA is intangible property as opposed to not having any real value?

How do you plan to redeem them if the state won't take their own tender?

[Tom]

I propose a deal with Mexico - keep Obama and we will keep the 22 million illegals.

[robert99]

As California goes so goes the Nation! :bang:

I hope not.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m572d

Louis Theroux - The City Addicted to Crystal Meth

Central Valley, California, is home to some of the most impoverished rural towns in America, where crystal meth addiction is prolific. In Fresno, Louis finds a community ravaged by this cheap and highly addictive drug.

As he infiltrates the town, he experiences the reality of meth abuse, as addicts who are high (or 'tweaking', as it is known) invite him into their homes to see them take hit after hit of their favourite drug. Louis becomes surrounded by the madness of daily addiction and the meth-addled confusion which is breaking this community apart.

He sees its impact through the eyes of the local police, and meets Diane and Karl, a couple who have sustained their marriage despite a 25-year meth addiction and losing custody of their five children. He witnesses arrests of sons doing meth with their mothers, and family after family broken apart from generations of meth abuse.

At the Westcare residential centre, Louis sees the work being done to combat the destruction caused by the drug. Run by ex-addicts, it offers a six-month rehab programme. He witnesses the extraordinary challenges they face dealing with meth-addicted families - babies born already hooked, with mothers caring for them while attempting to kick their own habit too.

Addiction is laid bare as Louis seeks out the stories and the people behind the drug.

[boxcar]

I hope not.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m572d

Louis Theroux - The City Addicted to Crystal Meth

Central Valley, California, is home to some of the most impoverished rural towns in America, where crystal meth addiction is prolific. In Fresno, Louis finds a community ravaged by this cheap and highly addictive drug.

As he infiltrates the town, he experiences the reality of meth abuse, as addicts who are high (or 'tweaking', as it is known) invite him into their homes to see them take hit after hit of their favourite drug. Louis becomes surrounded by the madness of daily addiction and the meth-addled confusion which is breaking this community apart.

He sees its impact through the eyes of the local police, and meets Diane and Karl, a couple who have sustained their marriage despite a 25-year meth addiction and losing custody of their five children. He witnesses arrests of sons doing meth with their mothers, and family after family broken apart from generations of meth abuse.

At the Westcare residential centre, Louis sees the work being done to combat the destruction caused by the drug. Run by ex-addicts, it offers a six-month rehab programme. He witnesses the extraordinary challenges they face dealing with meth-addicted families - babies born already hooked, with mothers caring for them while attempting to kick their own habit too.

Addiction is laid bare as Louis seeks out the stories and the people behind the drug.

What would you expect to find in a state run and controlled primarily by liberals!? :bang: :bang: Oh, I know...Utopia. :lol: :lol:

Boxcar

[cj's dad]

As a friend of mine on this board would classify them - ANCHORS

Blights on society - why do we as taxpayers have to support them and their offspring - WHY ???

lefties ?? comments or questions ?? Meth heads need our help?? you help them, not me !!!

[boxcar]

As a friend of mine on this board would classify them - ANCHORS

Blights on society - why do we as taxpayers have to support them and their offspring - WHY ???

lefties ?? comments or questions ?? Meth heads need our help?? you help them, not me !!!

Hey, lighten up, will ya? Meth heads have rights, too, ya know? There's probably something in the ObamaCare package that would take care of them.

Boxcar

[DJofSD]

Smells like a liberal double standard, or is that being redundant?

[andymays]

Don't tell anyone. Tortilla futures! shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :rolleyes:

[BlueShoe]

I propose a deal with Mexico - keep Obama and we will keep the 22 million illegals.
Not a good deal,heres why;Obummer is only going to be around for 3years and 5 months longer,at which time he will have to go home and look for a job.Getting the illegals out is a tougher job that will take longer.Of course,if New York will agree to take 20 million of the 22 total,then I would have to seriously reconsider my position.

[DJofSD]

Times are tough for a lot of Californian's -- even those living in and making their living in the San Fernando Valley. See: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/business/la-fi-ct-porn10-2009aug10,0,4269185.story

On a recent Saturday night, Savannah Stern earned $300 to hang out for seven hours at a party in Santa Monica wearing nothing but a feather boa.

The veteran of more than 350 hard-core pornography productions took the job to earn extra cash and to network. But the word at the 35th anniversary party for Hustler magazine was not heartening, especially among the roughly 75 other women working there.

More at the link.