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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   "YK"  wrote in message   
   news:pmh18a$1mo5$1@adenine.netfront.net...   
   > On 9/1/18 3:37 PM, Arlen Holder wrote:   
   >> On 1 Sep 2018 09:44:57 GMT, 123456789 wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> We Zonies (what Californians call AZ tourists) have a 101 and also call   
   >>> it "the 101". And I take "the 10" and "the 8" when I visit and pay those   
   >>> exorbitant CA taxes...   
   >>   
   >> Please visit more often, as the California state sales tax is   
   >> stupendously   
   >> high, so you can help defray our costs.   
   >>   
   >> In addition, the hotel taxes are astronomical, so do stay at a hotel.   
   >>   
   >> And, I've found, a taxi that originates from an airport costs more than   
   >> the   
   >> exact same taxi ride that doesn't originate from the airport - so use the   
   >> taxi please!   
   >>   
   >> :)   
   >>   
   >> (You gotta love a state that taxes you even when you never owe them a   
   >> cent,   
   >> which only NY and CA do - and CA does it hugely more than NY which only   
   >> taxes you $100 when you don't owe them money but file income taxes late).   
   >>   
   >> You also gotta love a state that sales taxes the salles tax on top of   
   >> both   
   >> tires and soda bottles. In the case of soda bottles, if you paid, say,   
   >> $100   
   >> in the year for the CRV, you only get back about $90 because California   
   >> *taxes* the CRV!   
   >>   
   >> Likewise, you pay a sales tax to buy a tire, and then you pay *another*   
   >> sales tax on that same tire when you bring it in for disposal!   
   >>   
   >> They also have a sales tax on phones that you get for free - yup - you   
   >> pay   
   >> about $70 sales tax on a free $700 phone even though you get the phone   
   >> for   
   >> free (of course, you're paying for the phone internally in your contract   
   >> but *that* is taxed also!).   
   >>   
   >> Any state that can have consistently the highest taxes in the nation   
   >> deserves notice - especially since it's the only state I know of that is   
   >> too poor to afford yellow school buses.   
   >>   
   >> QUESTION:   
   >> Is there any other state other than California that is too poor to afford   
   >> yellow school buses?   
   >   
   > Why don't you move then?   
      
   No other state will let him move there.   
      
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