Bad news for those who live in Los Angeles, Sales Tax will jump to 10.25% Next Year !

[mugupo]

Probably i need to do more shopping online like Amazon to avoid the crazy high sales tax in Los Angeles, all those tax will hurt business because people will just find another way to get the stuff without paying tax like online. Thanks to Gov. Arnold.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,4137915.story

[bhampton]

Glad sales tax (and state income tax) here is still 0.00

(Hope that never changes.)

[walruswarrior]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Glad sales tax (and state income tax) here is still 0.00

(Hope that never changes.)

Where do you live Delaware or New Hampshire?

[Clark Kent]

How are the Dodgers going to get Manny Ramirez now? With all the crazy sales tax he will be paying he will want to be paid higher than A-Rod now.

[jkwest]

great....here comes more flat-landers....at least it might turn the housing market around a little bit...

[mugupo]

I think i has something to do we had too many illegal, we know we provided them free public school, school lunch etc.. all this cost a lot of money, there's reason why other state has no issue as California face, they had much tougher law against illegal. California should learn from Arizona, terminate all business license if they hire illegal.

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Glad sales tax (and state income tax) here is still 0.00

(Hope that never changes.)

But imagine how much good your State could do with even a 1% sales tax and the revenue generated from such.

Logan

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by jadedeath

But imagine how much good your State could do with even a 1% sales tax and the revenue generated from such.

Logan

They are extending the subway over the next few years so that eventually it hits Westwood.

The stupid thing is, for the longest time, there were tracks that ran the full length from downtown to the beach along Santa Monica Blvd. They tore the tracks out and built underground.

[U4K61]

Got to love it when income is going down along with jobs, taxes are on the rise.

[JimShaw]

What will happen is that L.A. will probably end up with less money and at the same time, hurt L.A. Business.

I lived in Colorado for about 2 years. There are towns in Colorado that have low taxes and those that have much higher taxes. I bet you can guess when It came time to purchase an expensive item such as TVs, washer and dryers, etc. where I went to purchase. You bet, the next town over with the 3.5% tax not where I lived at 6%.

Politicians are either dumn or they think we are.

[AaronSCH]

Silly Americans. The more you ask your government to do for you, the more of your freedom will be lost. Everyone was ecstatic on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. I'm sure you all felt warm and fuzzy as Oprah and the rest of the world sang Kum Ba Yah. Wake up. You'll need a second job just to support Obamanation (that is, if he is successful in pushing through the programs he has envisioned).

It's so intellectually lazy to blame George Bush for the economic mess in which we find ourselves. However, if you do some digging, you will find the roots of the current problem in legislation called "The Community Reinvestment Act." Unrestrained greed had more to do with the current crisis than anything else. Bad judgement spread from Wall Street to the individual homebuyer—everyone was out to make a quick buck without producing a thing. People invested in properties they were ill-prepared to afford—don't tell me they were coerced by unscrupulous lenders. Are we not free to make our own decisions anymore? The mortgage crisis has more to do with excessive risk-taking than anything else. Everyone was gambling with their future and those who lost should have to live with their mistakes.

Recessions are normal. Economies have ebbs and flows. The government has been lowering interest rates and printing money to artificially keep things afloat and the Republicans out spent the Democrats they replaced—they got what they deserved—the boot. What we have now is a perfect economic storm and it will take years for us to dig out of it.

My fear is that there is nobody on the horizon prepared to clean up the mess after the next four years have passed. Yes, I am praying that my fears about Barack Obama are baseless.

[U4K61]

Originally Posted by AaronSCH

Silly Americans. The more you ask your government to do for you, the more of your freedom will be lost. Everyone was ecstatic on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. I'm sure you all felt warm and fuzzy as Oprah and the rest of the world sang Kum Ba Yah. Wake up. You'll need a second job just to support Obamanation

+1. Any government help is a short term gain for a long term loss in the form of higher taxes later on. The 2nd job thing has already happened. Two spouses now work, one for the bills and the other for taxes (true!), unlike my parents where only one had to work.

Your're right. Our freedom is slowly slipping away to more laws and regulation.

[pacificvibes]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Glad sales tax (and state income tax) here is still 0.00

(Hope that never changes.)

Where is this at???

[bhampton]

Quote "Where is this at???"

New Hampshire, Live Free of Diet

I never pay with cash anymore (the debit card's too easy) but when I used too use cash I loved the lack of sales tax because so many things are $19.96 and the ATM gives $20's. It was much easier to know if you had enough money for something because it sells for the marked price.

[JimShaw]

Originally Posted by mugupo

Probably i need to do more shopping online like Amazon to avoid the crazy high sales tax in Los Angeles, all those tax will hurt business because people will just find another way to get the stuff without paying tax like online. Thanks to Gov. Arnold.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,4137915.story

The Gov. is trying to raise the sales tax across the state 1 1/2 % BUT L.A. citizens just voted themselves a 1/2% sales tax increase making it 8 3/4% and if the Gov. gets his way, another 1 1/2% will go on top of that.

Voters are sure dumn. The keep voting the same people in year in and year out and they also approve any and every bond that comes down the pike and wonder why their taxes are going up. Dumn, very dumn.

[DetroitSportsFan]

"We are living in a different world now," Schwarzenegger told reporters this morning.

If different = worse, then yes Arnie, you are correct.

[jw]

it would happen with any politician, they have to balance the budget and this is a way

[JimShaw]

Originally Posted by jwbbud

it would happen with any politician, they have to balance the budget and this is a way

They spend, spend and spend without any regards to the consequences.

I suggest firing them all and vote in new inexperienced people. They could not do any worse then the experienced ones.

[BRu-LAy]

I guess he has terminated my spending

[pBLU-RAYs3]

More bad news:
1) Lakers couldn't get it done.
2) Dodgers neither.
3) Californians will experience the most devastating earthquake any time from here on out.
4) You call that a hot dog.
5) I know all about the overcrowding & under-funding of your schools.

There's a bright side, can't think of any.