Comments on: Do you want to pay a TAX on your PETS?

By: Leslie Medina

Leslie Medina — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:00:49 +0000

If Arnold passes this bill, I will never again vote for him!!! Hey Arnold, I have an idea, how about a 9% tax hike (or more) on cigarette smokers who are draining healthcare costs on all of us tax paying americans???????

By: Mary Christensson

Mary Christensson — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:02:03 +0000

Thank you, Gary, for keeping us all apprised on the Rossmoor woodpecker situation and on the proposed veterinary services tax. Providing specific telephone numbers and email addresses to direct our protests has been enormously helpful.

Both situations should be making people mad as hell.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:39:10 +0000

Barbara, that was one point I brought up in my letter to him, i.e., companionship and service animals. It’s his plan to even tax those who need animals for medical assistance? Then, too, where does he plan to draw the line within the medical realm? Judgments could possibly infract ADA regs.

I wouldn’t let public opposition to this idea rest with pressing a digit on a telephone. Letters, e-mail, are “tangible.”

http://gov.ca.gov/interact#contact

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:49:16 +0000

I called the governor’s office and pressed all the necessary numbers to leave my opposition to the vet tax. This makes me think of when they in San Francisco made you pay to use the toilets.

Don’t these people in office realize how many senior citizens living on fixed incomes have pets and need them to help their quality of life and to extend their lives?

I voted for Arnold, but would never vote for him again for anything.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:21:34 +0000

This makes me think back to the SF Mayor’s temporary light bulb to fine people who don’t use appropriate “recycle bins” at their places of residence to distribute their trash. I suggested to that Mayor that all he was doing was inviting the public to further dump along California highways *already* filled with trash.

The Schwarzenegger Plan sounds equally as stupid. Taxation because of companionship? Is that fair to the elderly, disabled, children, families, singles, anyone (and now me with a broken knee cap?).

I don’t know where these elected officials are scraping up these dimwitted ideas–but I’m not viewing them as in “public interests.” Rather, politicians are coming across as scavengers attempting to dream up seemingly creative, albeit stupid, ideas to protect THEIR personal pay.

I’ll press 2 because I am against the tax. I’ll even write a few letters. Heck, I have a minimum of six weeks in which to write letters. It’s been five days and I’m getting bored…