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Re: CA 50 Days From Financial Meltdown

Unread postby Plantagenet » Thu 11 Jun 2009, 12:42:05

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You know, I think I've just about had it with California -- didn't I post this same thing like four months ago? Metldown in 50 days!! Well, they didn't meltdown, they're still there and annoying as ever.

The bluffing is starting to get like North Korea, for goodness sake. Get on with it already, Cali.


The government in California is so incompetent they can't get anything done.

They can't even go bankrupt. :roll:
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Re: CA 50 Days From Financial Meltdown

Unread postby heroineworshipper » Thu 11 Jun 2009, 13:17:45

No. U R 50 days from paying higher taxes for Calif*.
People first, then things, then dollars.
There will be enslavement, cannibalism, & zombie invasions.
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Re: CA 50 Days From Financial Meltdown

Unread postby basil_hayden » Thu 11 Jun 2009, 13:39:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'C')alifornia has just instituted a new agricultural VAT to all food exports. It is a geographically retrogressive so states further away will have to pay more money for their food. So Massachusetts and Connecticut for instance will be taxed at a rate of 50%, while Texas will only endure 25% (but seeing as the Texans are Republican and tend to be loudmouthed, it was decided that an additional 30% surcharge would be applied.) Other states with CSA's, good environmental records, and nice people get their food for free :)


Nice guys, those Californians. After using the Northeast's tax money to build dams and water distribution systems for fully air-conditioned cities with running water in the middle of a desert, they're going to go bankrupt and put a tax on the crap they export? Sweet. When the heck will California have the common decency to just fall into the ocean? If California doesn't watch its step, we may sell you to China and call it even. So much for being the #4 economy of the world, larger than most other countries. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out of the Union. I'm not really into salmonella infested lettuce anyway.
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Re: CA 50 Days From Financial Meltdown

Unread postby Plantagenet » Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:23:56

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')Don't hate us for being Beautiful


There's nothing beautiful about being a bankrupt deadbeat.

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Re: CA 50 Days From Financial Meltdown

Unread postby Plantagenet » Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:31:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')Don't hate us for being Beautiful


There's nothing beautiful about being a bankrupt deadbeat.

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I said watch it or we'll take away your Fruit Loops and leave you with the blubber and cabbage.


Whale blubber and giant cabbages taste shitty.

Heres the deal, beach boys....---- if California doesn't keep shipping us our almonds/oranges/lettuce/milk/raisens/apples/etc. etc. we won't ship you our oil. :twisted:

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Alaska actually had a quarrel just like this with Washington State. Washington State passed a tariff on all shipping leaving their state and travelling by boat to another state.....this tax was targetted at Alaska. In response, Alaska passed a tax on all oil shipments leaving Alaska and travelling by boat to another state......

Washington State backed down on their tax very quickly.
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Re: CA 50 Days From Financial Meltdown

Unread postby Sixstrings » Thu 11 Jun 2009, 14:59:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'C')alifornia has just instituted a new agricultural VAT to all food exports. It is a geographically retrogressive so states further away will have to pay more money for their food. So Massachusetts and Connecticut for instance will be taxed at a rate of 50%, while Texas will only endure 25% (but seeing as the Texans are Republican and tend to be loudmouthed, it was decided that an additional 30% surcharge would be applied.) Other states with CSA's, good environmental records, and nice people get their food for free :)


Ohhhh that's clever. Taxing exports.. I never thought of that. They have us over a barrel on that one, the nation needs their produce.
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Re: CA 50 Days From Financial Meltdown

Unread postby Plantagenet » Thu 11 Jun 2009, 15:20:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'P')lant, haven't you heard? The North Slope is in decline.


Pstarr, haven't you heard? Central Valley agriculture has peaked and is in decline....there's not enough water for fish, agriculture, and all the suburban lawns and swimming pools and California is too broke to do anything about it. :idea:
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Re: CA 50 Days From Financial Meltdown

Unread postby kiwichick » Mon 15 Jun 2009, 01:00:39

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Re: CA 50 Days From Financial Meltdown

Unread postby wisconsin_cur » Mon 15 Jun 2009, 05:13:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')Ohhhh that's clever. Taxing exports.. I never thought of that. They have us over a barrel on that one, the nation needs their produce.


But we do not need to buy it from them. We may need the grain from the midwest for the calories but large swaths of the country can grow their own veggies.

Besides the constitution would be in the way:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')o State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.



http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#A1Sec8
http://www.thenewfederalistpapers.com
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Re: CA 50 Days From Financial Meltdown

Unread postby vision-master » Mon 15 Jun 2009, 08:32:22

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Re: CA 50 Days From Financial Meltdown

Unread postby rangerone314 » Mon 15 Jun 2009, 08:50:47

Give the post was started 5 days ago does that mean they really are only 45 days from collapse or was Chiang just using hyperbole?
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