Comments on: Skinner blasts Schwarzenegger on budget, taxes

By: Stochastic

Stochastic — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:00:30 +0000

Well, now, this is truly fascinating. Let me see: Skinner suggests large national businesses that are currently evading their local sales taxes should stop that. It’s projected that these large businesses would respond by yanking their business from their small-business local affiliates — that is, that the national corporates would stick a knife in the back of our local business if they were asked to fulfill their civic duty to our area. Yet in this whole comment thread, all the moral outrage is directed against Nancy Skinner for making the suggestion that those corporates should not be evading paying their taxes. SHE is crazy and a loon, SHE would be killing our small businesses. Not the heinous behavior of those corporates. That right-wing corporate propaganda machine that cranks out the free-market snake oil sure is paying a huge return on investment! Business can be evil as it wants, and society must bow down to it. That’s the moral imperative today, folks. Wow. Just for fun, what if this tax passed, the corps screwed our locals, and Californians boycotted those corps in response? And made an extra point of doing other business with the locals to support them? If you don’t pay your taxes and follow the laws of society, you should be out and responsible businesses should and will take your place. And consumers should enforce that!

By: Elwood

Elwood — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:08:01 +0000

If any further proof were needed that Skinner is a loony, one has only to read the comments in this thread.

Only Berkeley would elect this brain dead woman to anything.

By: Alan Gray

Alan Gray — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:01:43 +0000

The Skinner Bill AB178 could have killed my small business. We are surviving right now, but that tax bill could have been the nail in the coffin. Their estimate of $55 million in tax income would probably have come in close to zero, while at the same time killing my business and up to 25,000 others in California. Also losing state income tax and business renewals. Some other businesses in this area not only employ 30+ staff, but they are expanding right now, and they would have been forced to layoff staff, who not only wouldn’t pay state income tax, but some may have been forced to unemployment. The bill made no sense at all, practically guaranteeing damage to one class of small businesses that last year, generated around $125 million in state income tax.

The lobbyist driving this legislation was looking out for his sponsors, but they would not have been helped by it at all.

California obviously has a problem that needs to be fixed, but trying to fix it with this bill would have resulted in a further digging of the hole we are in. It could have pushed me to sell my home and it definitely isn’t a good time for that.

By: Elwood

Elwood — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:43:09 +0000

“Speaker Bass is acting like an 8-year-old.”

Acutally, my eight-year-old grandson is much more mature. The speaker of the assembly! Imagine!

By: Tim Saye

Tim Saye — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:31:20 +0000

Folks,

The Golden State is definitely going down quickly, and it is legislators such as this one who still don’t get it about taxes. You do not raise them in a recession.

Also, why are California state workers making such high incomes and pensions, when the majority of Californians, especially small businesses, are simply folding and many are leaving the state by the droves to more tax friendly regions of the country?

Well, the Gipper’s fiscal discipline about limited government is being ignored completely, and when this state is completely broke by October and state workers and vendors haven’t been paid for a couple of months, will there be a change in how Californians view their government and its role in their lives?

Old Ronald is rolling in his grave!

By: Wacko Leg

Wacko Leg — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:25:26 +0000

This crazy woman wants to help small businesses by taxing them. What a bonehead

By: Brook Schaaf

Brook Schaaf — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:35:18 +0000

My business would be directly harmed by AB 178, which discriminates against a kind of online advertising called affiliate marketing. The consequence of this legislation, as happened in New York, is that out-of-state retailers will sever their relationships with California-based affiliates. This means that California affiliates and related businesses (like mine) earn less money – in New York their income dropped off by 50%. Because nexus is thereby avoided, it also means no tax dollars for the state.

Representative Skinner is aware of these consequences and it is irresponsible for her to continue to peddle this nostrum. I applaud Governor Schwarzenegger’s common sense stance in defense of small business and fairness.

We employ five Californians full time and this type of legislation could force me to lay someone off.

By: JobKiller

JobKiller — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:40:40 +0000

From the CA Chamber of Commerce Job Killer List:
AB 664 (Skinner; D-Berkeley) Increased Workers’ Compensation Costs.

Increases workers’ compensation costs by creating a legal presumption that neck and back injuries, and blood-borne and specific infections suffered by hospital employees are related to employment.

By: Arne Simonsen

Arne Simonsen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:55:44 +0000

And this is “news-worthy”? She’s from the People’s Republic of Bezerkeley, for Pete’s sake! What else should we expect?

By: Elwood

Elwood — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:01:23 +0000

Typical revolting dimmiecrat bleeding heart liberal brain dead Berkeley BS.

Skinner is a disgrace to the CA leg.

And that’s hard to do.