A GEITHNER/DASCHLE/RANGEL INSPIRED IDEA FROM JIM BENNETT: There must be some way for the GOP to move out aggressively on the administrations IRS problems beyond making speeches that will be forgotten within days. I am sensing a huge anger on this out there. What about the idea of a moratorium on IRS audits for middle-class taxpayers (using any of Obamas campaign-trail definitions, from $250K/yr on down) for at least a year? Obviously the IRS is short on auditors, so why not deploy them where they are most needed?
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Maybe they could jumpstart the economy by introducing a moratorium on interest and penalties for us common folk making under $250k.
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Obviously the IRS is short on auditors, so why not deploy them where they are most needed?"
That would be Hollyweird and Wall Street, both of whom are big donors to "Name that Party". Obviously a no-go from the start. Must keep the serfs nervous, cause no one ever expects The Spanish Inquisition the audit.
I normally do not post on websites or blogs but at this point in time I am so anguished by what my daughter is going through that I have to express it to someone.
My daughter is a student at Orange Coast College. She has a little apartment in Costa Mesa on an alley. Her car was "impounded" by the City of Costa Mesa because her vehicle registration was expired. Something most cities write a ticket for and levy a small fine if you show up with the registration renewal. How did a police man get down in that alley and find her car? He would have known from the police computer that the owner was a early twenties girl living on her own.
My daughter pays for her school with a Governor's grant from the State and by working part time as a waitress in Newport Beach. She does not have much money. I am not in a financial position to contribute much more than a tank of gas occasionally and an odd $100 every so often.
The City of Costa Mesa wanted more money than my daughter had to pay the impound fees, by the time she got the money together, it was over $1000 for three weeks plus her car insurance had expired. The City of Costa Mesa wants to auction off her car if she does not come up with the money by the end of this week. I think the end game here is that the City of Costa Mesa really wants the car and makes the impound fees so high that students and people who are having a hard time making ends meet will walk away from the car.
My daughters car is a little Mercedes 230 hatchback that she got a great deal on after her Plymouth Breeze was totaled by a woman running a red light. Mercedes Benz gave her 0% financing and a great price on the little car because it was a lease unwind. The payments on it are less than they would have been on the Toyota Corolla she went to the dealer to buy in the first place. She is not some pampered Orange County princess, she is a good kid working her butt off to get through school.
So my daughter is giving money to the City of Costa Mesa that could be better spent on her schooling. The City is generating funds preying on people who are on limited incomes and seizing property and selling it for a traffic offense that just about every city in California writes a ticket for NOT IMPOUND THE CAR.
I have to say that last night was a hard night for me, watching my daughter cry her eyes out, just scared to death of losing her car and her means to earn a livelihood. She and I have managed to scratch together the last of the money the City is demanding, unless of course they pull some other fees or surcharge out of their butt to keep the car long enough to auction it. Scratching together means I have to skip a car payment and my daughter has to borrow money from her boss and her friends and live on oatmeal for a month.
How do you auction off a $15,000 car for a $1300 bill? Does the owner get the balance of the proceeds or does the city keep it all?
As I said I am so outraged by this practice that I feel as if I have to express my anguish over this to someone. I am writing a letter to the Mayor of Costa Mesa, and you know what the response to that will be.
This is just another way that politicians in come cities in California have adopted practices to raise money that prey on citizens through outrageous fines, fees and police state thuggery.
If any of you astute readers out there have a suggestion or know of some recourse I might have to recover my daughter's money. I would appreciate a note.
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02/03/2009 14:58 ||
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California Department of Motor Vehicles is probably the most unpopular of a state bureaucracies. I never understood why a car has to be registered every year except that it's an opportunity for the state to collect an extra tax. You register the car when you buy it. That should be enough but not in California. But even if the registration is expired it shouldn't be more than a fine, not an impound.
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The State of Georgia has a liberal immigration policy for California residents, plenty of value for your housing dollar, excellent colleges, a good supply of used cars, and we pay only an initial vehicle registration.
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JC - any car found operating or parked on a city street with an expired reg past 90 days is routinely impounded in CA. It's not just Costa Mesa
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Frank G. is correct. I had an old truck that got impounded on this. Buying the tag & paying the fine is bad enough, but leaving it in impound for more than a day or two is where they side swipe you and run up the charges. Your daughter is between a rock and a hard spot unfortunately. Was the alley public or private property ? If it was a city alley, there's not much you can do except pay.
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it is 6 months and not 90 days...you can drive your car up to six months and all it is a fix it ticket. After 6 months they will impound -- driving or parked. I routinely drive up to the very last day of the 5th month :)...welcome tho the rebublic of kalifornia
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James, as a former parking enforcement ossifer....don't bother with the mayor. He/she/it probably won't even read it, has no interest in the matter and most likely has no authority in that area. (Most mayors are basically trotted out for ceremonial crap...the real bizness is covered by city managers and staff.)
Find out who is in charge of that towing detail. Write the sergeant/captain, whatever. CC the chief. Ask them as nicely as you can stomach about the circumstances of your daughter's tow.
Maybe everything wasn't followed to the letter and they can cut her a break. Hell, maybe everything was, and they still might (yeah, yeah, yeah youse guys....believe me, it did happen when we got someone who didn't start screaming about their civil rights being violated and how we were all Nazis.) We were so shocked to deal with a mature adult that we decided to be nice the four times it occurred. Couldn't hurt to try.
Don't bother with Besoeker's suggestion. It will only put them on the defensive and they will enforce every tiny detail of the law if the media is there. You don't want your daughter to be an example to others now, do you? That's what they will do if you trot out there, steaming mad, with Eyewitness Newz in your wake.
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Make sure your daughter graduates and then gets a good job, and her taxes, out of state.
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CNN + CNBC > California's State Deficit of US$40.0Bilyuhn is so huge that even iff the Congress passed any of the proposed STIMULUS BILLS, THE AVERAGE STIMULUS AMOUNT CA-SPECIFIC LEGAL RESIDENTS MAY RECEIVE WOULD NOT MAKE A DENT IN REDUCING THE STATE DEFICIT, and in fact may be held back by the STATE GOVT = SACRAMENTO + GOVERNATOR IN ORDER TO JUST TRY OR ATTEMPT TO CATCH UP ON ITS DEFICIT [Best-Case > ONLY A MINOR TOTAL DEFICIT REDUX]???
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CA State Deficit is so big and so bad that State Govt. Politicians and US CongressCritters may try to LEGISLATIVELY BLOCK OR DIRECT PAYMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS, etc., or DIVERT TO THE STATE GOVT COFFERS BEFORE "DISTRIBUTION/DISSEMINATION" TO SAME [read, IFF ANY = LEGISLAT "DELAY"].
It's long-standing tradition that just before the chief executive enters a room for a speech, he is announced: "Ladies and Gentlemen the President of the United States," is the standard introduction spoken by a staff member of the White House Communications Agency.
But this morning when Mr. Obama entered the East Room to address an audience about the economy, there was no announcement. He just walked right in announcing his own presence with a hearty "Hello, everybody good to see ya."
On Day One of his presidency, everywhere Mr. Obama went they played "Hail to the Chief" for him but not since. In fact the U.S. Marine Band's duties at the White House over the last 10 days appear to have been dramatically downsized.
Instead of the usual contingent of trumpets, tubas and drums, a single piano player now provides musical interludes before and after the president's appearance.
And the tunes have little connection to the military marching music of John Phillips Souza that is the usual accompaniment to presidential appearances. These days the pianist's repertoire includes Cole Porter's "Night and Day" and Stings "Desert Rose."
"He's not a 'Pomp and Circumstance' kind of guy," says press secretary Robert Gibbs of the new president.
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"Desert Rose"? You mean that Sting song that they pretty much stopped playing after 9/11 because of the Arabic chanting in it? (Disclosure....I actually liked the song. It was great to speed along the highway in a Corvette with it blaring on the speakers. Not that I ever did that.)
I think we can come up with some other appropriate songs to play. My nomination is "Send in the Clowns".
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The Marine Band is indisposed rehearsing L'Internationale.
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With all the sabre rattling going on, I suspect we'll be seeing the new flag very soon. My guess is it will be white on a field of white. Or possibly solid red on a field of red.
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Wiki cc Cole Porter: He did not register for the draft, yet loved to tell the press that he had joined the French Foreign Legion. In reality, he went to work for the Duryea Relief Fund and maintained a closet full of various tailormade military uniforms that he wore when the mood suited him. The French Foreign Legion, however, claims Porter as an enlistee and displays his portrait in its museum in Aubagne.
So, the President of the United States has muzak played for him - how common. Appalled he is not having played the piano classics of Scott Joplin; you know like The Entertainer or Fig Leaf Rag.
Sting - isn't he the guy who tried to kill moaddib?
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These things will catch up. Just watch how pissed he will become when people start treating him like "Joe the Plumber" instead of the president. There was a reason pomp and circumstance is used.
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Mike beat me to it.
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How about playing The Entertainer on piano, you know the theme song from the movie, "The Sting."
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LOL. Groundhogs are ornery critters who don't take kindly to posturing politicians. Especially ones who take their food while trying to score PR points.
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Jimmy the Groundhog, Wisconsin's answer to Punxuntawney Phil, is more gentlemanly--at least the current Jimmy IX is. It helps that the mayor of Sun Prairie, WI, by virtue of his office, has the ability to speak Groundhogese; so when the cantankerous Jimmy VIII wouldn't come out of his hutch, the Mayor was still able to make the pronouncement! The present Jimmy IX, rescued after a roadside accident, is very calm and willing to let school kids pet him. He gives the mayor no grief on the big day.
Bloomberg obviously does not have the same perks as the mayor of Sun Prairie. He should call up the mayor of Sun Prairie and ask how it's done.
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It's peanuts compared to the "stimulus" they're trying to screw us with.
Trying to screw us they are. That is why they originally included the $400,000,000 worth of condoms [and birth control]. The countries going to hell in a handbasket fast. Our founding fathers would not have tolerated this b.s.
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Maybe if we paid better than the petitioners who dump into their reelection skim funds, not only would we probably get better candidates but then we would own them rather than be owned by the aforementioned alliance. You pay cheap and you're shocked, shocked to see the type of bums congresscritter you get.
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Compare iwd CHINESE MIL FORUM > THE END OF CAPITALISM? NEW BILL INTRODUCED IN THE US CONGRESS WILL LIMIT OR CAP WALL STREET/CORPORATE EXECUTIVES' SALARIES AT US$400,000 PER YEAR [US Execs NOT allowed anymore to earn more per Annum than the POTUS = POTUS OBAMA]???
UH, UH, D *** NG IT, WE IN THE GOVT. WANT TO MAKE IT ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY CATEGORICALLY UNDENIABLY UNEQUIVOCALLY ........@ETC. FINGER-POINTING CLEAR TO THE AMER PEOPLE - YOU US EXECS = WALL STREET FAT KATS WILL EAT NOTHING MORE = NOTHING LESS THAN EXPENSIVE, LOW-END WEALTHY LUXURY CLASS WINE-AND-STEAK/ESCARGOTS AND LIKE IT, BUSTER!
You can just feel the LONG-TERM, MORE-THAN-TEN-YEAR RECESSION = GREAT DEPRESSION 2, OR WORSER, can't ye!?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination on Tuesday to be President Barack Obama's Health and Human Services secretary, dealing potential blows to both speedy health care reform and Obama's hopes for a smoother start as president.
"Now we must move forward," Obama said in a written statement accepting "with sadness and regret" Daschle's surprise request to be removed from consideration. A day earlier, Obama had said he "absolutely" stood by Daschle in the face of problems over back taxes and potential conflicts of interest.
Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader and a strong backer of Obama's presidential bid, said he would have been unable to operate "with the full faith of Congress and the American people."
"I am not that leader, and will not be a distraction" to Obama's agenda, he said.
Obama had given Daschle two jobsto be White House health czar on top of the post leading the Health and Human Services Departmentand Daschle is relinquishing the czar post too. The developments called into question whether Obama will be able to move as quickly as he has promised on sweeping health care reformone of the pillars of his first 100 days agenda.
"It really sets us back a step," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. "Because he was such a talent. I mean he understood Congress, serving in the House and Senate he certainly had the confidence of the president."
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I bet his value as a "advisor" to the drug companies just crashed. No more $1 Million/year paydays from the Big Pharma.
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His wife was getting lots of money from some airline organization based upon his prestige as a Senator.
Sometimes it isn't the elected official that is getting the money, it's the spouse or the kids....
I'm glad this weasely little piece of crap bailed out. He was such a complete backstabbing a$$ when he was the Senate Majority Leader.....
I hope they send him to jail....like they would me if I had done this.
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Another crook goes virtually unpunished. If the President and the Senate wanted to restore some faith, they should all volunteer for IRS auditing. Of course that risks a vacuum in the Senate.
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Obama's "Chief Performance Officer" also withdrew today, also due to not paying her taxes.
He keeps nominating fat cats who don't pay their taxes. It's almost like he wants to fail.
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So, even after all this, if he didn't drop out do you think he would've been approved by his buddies in the Senate?
Um no, he wouldn't have been. That was the point. Someone did a nose count in the Senate last night, then looked at the polls this morning, and didn't like what they saw. Daschle got the call shortly thereafter.
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"I am not that leader, and will not be a distraction" to Obama's agenda, he said.
Daschle is not a distraction, he's an embarrassment.
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Al Capone went to the Federal pen for something like $20K and was left to rot. How come Tommy Thumb is waltzing around DC and owes $140+ ? The bastard ought to be in Leavenworth. Make that Gitmo.
Vice President Biden administered the oath of office to Hillary Clinton at a State Department ceremony -- and momentarily botched the oath by tripping over his words, but made a quick recovery (even though the crowd had chanted "Get it right" before he even started).
If her cheating had involved a 5 or 6 figure number she might have hung in there. But $298, "Oh, the humanity!"
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday.
Killefer was the second major Obama administration nominee to withdraw and the third to have tax problems complicate their nomination after President Barack Obama announced their selection.
"Nancy Killefer has decided to withdraw her nomination, and we accepted her withdrawal," Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, said Tuesday. The 55-year-old executive with consulting giant McKinsey & Co., was expected to explain her reasons for pulling out later in the day.
When her selection was announced by Obama on Jan. 7, The Associated Press disclosed that in 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a $946.69 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help.
Since then, administration officials refused to answer questions about the tax error, which she resolved five months after the lien was filed. Obama's first choice for commerce secretary, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, took his name out of consideration when his confirmation appeared headed toward complications because of a grand jury investigation over how state contracts were issued to political donors.
More recently, Timothy Geithner was confirmed as Treasury secretary despite belatedly paying $34,000 in income taxes, and Tom Daschle is still waiting to see if his late payment of more than $128,000 in income taxes will harm his nomination to be health and human services secretary.
On paper, Killefer brought impressive credentials to the two jobs Obama selected her for: deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, which requires Senate confirmation, and a new White House post, chief performance officer for the entire federal government, which does not require confirmation.
Killefer oversees McKinsey's management consulting for government clients. During 1997-2000 in the Clinton administration, Killefer was assistant Treasury secretary for management. As such she was the chief financial officer and chief operating officer for the Treasury and its 160,000 employees and led a modernization of its largest component, the Internal Revenue Service.
But for nearly a month, the administration had refused to answer how its choice to make government workers more efficient and more responsive had bungled her household payroll taxes.
The AP reported that on March 7, 2005, the D.C. Department of Employment Services slapped a tax lien on her home in the tony Wesley Heights neighborhood. The local government alleged that just three years after she left the high-powered Treasury post she began to fail to pay unemployment compensation tax for a household employee. And she failed to make the required quarterly payments for a year and half, whereupon a lien for $946.69 was placed on her home.
That sum included $298 in unpaid taxes, $48.69 in interest and $600 in penalties. The lien was filed March 7, 2005, but Killefer didn't get the lien extinguished for almost five months, not until July 29. During that period, Killefer and her husband, an economics professor, had a teenage son and daughter, but she had two nannies and a personal assistant to run her life when she was on the road, she told Harvard business students back then.
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From the Times. It appears Captain Louis Reynault has joined the editorial board...
After this editorial was published, Tom Daschle did the right thing for himself and more important for the Obama administration and withdrew his name from nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services. He may have been propelled to do so by the news that Nancy Killefer, who was appointed by Mr. Obama to the newly created position of White House chief performance officer, had also withdrawn citing her own tax troubles. The withdrawal of Ms. Killefer had left a lot of people, including us, scratching their heads and wondering what had become of President Obama's high ethical standards. It should not be hard for the new president to find high-quality appointees to both of these posts. Before he names them, he might have his team do a little more thorough scrubbing of their tax returns. Americans have the right to know that their appointed leaders pay their full share of taxes.
Maybe Barry's "high ethical standards" are not what you think they are?
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"Is it just me, or does $600 in penalties seem excessive for $298 in unpaid taxes?"
Is it just me, Al, or could she have avoided $600 penalty by just PAYING HER DAMN TAXES like the rest of us little people do?
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and also Ms Killefer actually paid those taxes and penalties long before Obama had nominated her. Daschle didn't pay until some time after Obama clinched the nomination and Geithner didn't pay until after he was nominated.
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Ms. Killefer's declination might have had little to do with her tax issue. I would like to think she experienced an epiphany in judgement based on the character of her future handlers.
Barry Again Fails to File Tax Forms also known as F6 on the Washington Post Macrowriter
D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) has again failed to file his tax returns.
The former District mayor has not submitted federal or city tax forms for 2007 -- the second instance in which he has not filed required returns while on probation for tax offenses, said two sources familiar with the situation.
Barry's current trouble stems from a guilty plea in 2005 to two misdemeanor tax charges. He admitted not filing federal or D.C. tax returns from 1999 through 2004 and said that he did not pay most of the taxes he owed on more than $500,000 in income. U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson sentenced him to three years of probation in March 2006.
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Too bad he's so along in his years. The One could have faced some serious competition for the nomination. Tax cheat that he is however, isn't there some administrative appointment still vacant?
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The sad part is that few of the people in the DC Ward he represents bother to watch the news or read the paper (I wonder how many of them can actually read) and so they will vote him back into public office as a member of the DC City Council where he will waste another term doing absolutely nothing for the people who elected him except collect a paycheck.
While everyone is looking at Tom Daschle's tax problems (I am too, working on a story for tomorrow morning), a new issue has arisen concerning another Obama cabinet nomination, that of Rep. Hilda Solis to be Secretary of Labor.
Solis had a rough hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee when she declined to answer all sorts of seemingly noncontroversial questions about her positions on basic labor issues. (Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus wrote a frustrated account of the hearing, asking, "How can senators consent if they have no clue what policies they might be consenting to?") Now, some committee members want to know more about Solis' relationship with a pro-labor group called American Rights at Work. On the group's website, Solis is listed as a member of the board of directors, and she also served as Treasurer of the organization from 2004 to 2007. The question is whether Solis, who as a member of Congress is prohibited from lobbying Congress, fully disclosed her relationship with the group.
American Rights at Work is an important part of Big Labor's push for the Employee Free Choice Act, known more accurately as card check. A recent account in the lefty journal In These Times says that, "Early this year, unions plan to present 1 million signatures in support of EFCA to Congress, and they are calling on allies from civil rights, environment, religious and other movements to broaden the campaign beyond labor. American Rights at Work, a labor-founded coalition, is playing a leading role in this effort."
No one is accusing Solis of concealing her connection with the group; it was common knowledge in the labor world, and she listed it in the paperwork she submitted for her confirmation hearing. But she did not list it on the disclosure forms she was required to submit to the House of Representatives. It was an unpaid position, so there is no problem with income. But there are questions about whether Solis, as Treasurer, played a de facto role in the group's lobbying activity; if you're a member of Congress, you're not supposed to simultaneously lobby Congress. (Solis has told the Senate that she did not take part in the group's lobbying activities.) In any event, you're required to list your affiliation on disclosure documents, which Solis did not do. (On January 29, she filed amended disclosure forms with the House, listing her association with the labor group.) Some Senate Republicans don't view this as a major issue with the Solis nomination, but they do want to know more about her specific activities for American Rights at Work.
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.....if you're a member of Congress, you're not supposed to simultaneously lobby Congress. (Solis has told the Senate that she did not take part in the group's lobbying activities.)
Total bunk! This was way, way back in 2004-2007 and the 15 minute Congressional lying, cheating, and stealing Statute of Limitations has long run out. Besides, we were fighting "W" then and she was a Congresscritter from California, which trumps all laws, rules, and covenants.
Massachusetts has ordered a tire chain to charge Bay State residents a 5 percent sales tax on their purchases in New Hampshire in an unprecedented move that could have huge implications for consumers and other merchants.
Town Fair Tire Centers, which is based in Connecticut but has six shops in New Hampshire and 25 in Massachusetts, is fighting back with a lawsuit now before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that accuses the state of violating the US commerce clause. If Massachusetts prevails in the case, which is likely to be heard next month, it could drive up costs for consumers and retailers such as Best Buy and Sears that sell expensive home appliances and other goods in New Hampshire, which doesn't have a state sales tax. It also could mean millions of dollars in new tax revenue for the Commonwealth as it faces a $1.1 billion budget deficit, according to tax analysts.
"This is a first-of-its-kind case," said Fred Nicely, general counsel of the Council on State Taxation, a nonprofit trade association of multistate corporations engaged in interstate and international business. "There's huge ramifications to the entire retail community."
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Ha ha ha. Oh boy is this good. NY threatened to do something like that years ago and sent agents to mark down NY license plates that were shopping in Elizabeth, NJ. Didn't last long.
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Louisiana has taxed purchases made out of state for years - but the burden of reporting and paying is on the Louisiana resident, as a line on the income tax form. Needless to say, compliance is not perfect. I have trouble seeing how Taxachusetts has jurisdiction to require NH merchants to do anything.
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These aren't NH businesses, they are Mass businesses with 25 stores in Mass. They can keep the 25 store in Mass and pay the tax or they can close them. The next step will be to tax internet purchases. And that is where this is really headed. And Bambi will support it.
Proponents were outspent 10:1 by people who like taxes.
And, yes, MA also has a line on the state income tax form requiring you to remit MA sales tax on your out of state purchases for which you paid no tax.
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It's not a first-of-its-kind case, it's a purely unconstitutional imposition of costs on one state by another. It'll never survive the first federal court challenge.
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OTOH, on CNN AM, US$40.0BILYUHN-AND-THENSOME DEFICIT-RIDDEN CALIFORNIA is NO LONGER NOT JUST "CALIFORNIA" OR THE "[US]STATE OF CALIFORNIA", BUT IS NOW "THE CAL-ZONE/CALIFORNIA ZONE", as in OWG-NWO SOVEREIGN ZONE = EURO-ZONE!
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination on Tuesday to be President Barack Obama's Health and Human Services secretary, dealing potential blows to both speedy health care reform and Obama's hopes for a smoother start as president.
