Yeah, electing a ‘moderate’ Republican Governor helped so very much, didn’t it?

The CA tax bill that’s due for me every April is outrageous anyway, so if withholding more now actually makes April bill smaller, I’m OK with it.

Like that temporary telephone tax levied during the Spanish American war ?
And there exist people who want more of this, called liberals I believe.

today. My wife’s mother and sisters live there and she’s always agitating to move there but so far I’ve held out.

obama spread the wealth elcrapo. It is time for change to save our Nation from the political hacks that never ran a business.

…if you want to keep your current withholding amounts.

The real game is with the estimated tax schedules.

The new tax schedules are designed to push more estimated taxes into the first half of calendar year 2010 (which puts them into the current fiscal year) by increasing the 4/15 and 6/15 percentages. The results is, if I recall, that the third payment is dropped and the last payment (which is due in 2011) is the balance.

The trick is that once in this schedule, the state cannot go back to a more normal system without paying the piper in that fiscal year, so we have the start into the direction of pushing collections earlier and earlier, a forced interest-free loan.

More budgeting chicanery.

AND something that other State Legislatures will look at as a quick ‘fix’ to their own inability to do simple math?
=>AND<= that the tax and spend liberals in Congress won’t be salivating over?
Really?
BTW, I don’t see this as a “loan”.
I NEVER see theft as a ‘loan’.

“If California were an independent nation, it would be the sixth largest economy in the world. We can afford to be generous to those less fortunate. I’d rather have a bleeding heart than no heart at all.” I overhead this ersatz piece of wisdom while sitting in a cafe in Berkeley. This sums up nicely the attitude that liberals have toward government, in California and in DC. We’re the richest state, the richest nation on earth, and it’s our duty to open up our hearts and bleed into the streets. The bleeding heart philosopher then used a VISA card to pay for four Lattes. That’s liberal voodoo economics: put it on the credit card and worry about paying for it later. Your neighbor can’t afford to pay a mortgage? Buy it for him and put it on the credit card. The illegal amigo needs to have his MS 13 tatts removed? Have the best surgeon do the work and put it on the credit card. The bum on the street corner might rehabilitate himself if only you buy him an Armani suit and a BMW. Charge it to the credit card. Spend, spend, spend trying to fill up the emptiness inside. If we can’t pay? Well, we’ll declare bankruptcy and start again. It’s a pathology that I’m not certain has a cure. Unfortunately, these economics-challenged twits will take everyone else in the state down with them.