Category Archives: Taxes

Profiles in Deep State Moonbattery: Elias Siegelman

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Looks like the Transsexual Violence Hall of Horrors may need to add a new wing. IRS employee Elias Siegelman calls for fellow moonbats to join the trans army:

Remember when Obama weaponized the IRS against the Tea Party and when Biden proclaimed he would add vast numbers of IRS agents? Makes you wonder what kind of people are in charge of confiscating the wealth we create so that Big Government can flush it away. Hopefully Siegelman does not offer an indication.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Gavin Newsom Introduces 100% Taxation

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One of Obama’s several autobiographies is entitled Dreams from My Father. His father floated the idea of 100% taxation. This dream could come true in Democrat-dominated California.

The Hill reports:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday said he will impose a 100 percent tax on state residents who receive money from the Trump administration’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund meant to compensate those who feel they were wrongfully prosecuted by the government.

Governor Greasy will confiscate the money with relish:

“One thing that I think we’re going to try to do … is tax 100 percent. Anyone from California that receives any of those funds, we want to tax 100 percent of those proceeds. And that’s an action the state of California can take,” Newsom said. “It’s an action we look forward to taking.”

Democrats object to the fund on the grounds that it could compensate those unjustly persecuted following January 6. They call it a “slush fund” — which is rich coming from Newsom, who has his own controversial funds.

Via Fox News:

Among the programs that faced scrutiny was a $25 million California legal fund created to combat what Newsom described as “legal warfare” from the Trump administration. California Republican Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones later deemed the fund a “slush fund.”

Newsom also faced scrutiny during California’s 2021 recall campaign over the state’s use of no-bid COVID-19 contracts. A Kaiser Health News investigation found California awarded billions of dollars in emergency contracts to firms tied to donors, political allies and well-connected insiders.

Taxing at the rate of 100% is an idea sure to catch on among other Democrats. Being progressives, they will progressively apply it more broadly. At least it is better than executing CEOs.

As for what Newsom et al. would do with the loot, City Journal offers a possibility:

California is spending millions of dollars on a program that provides free solar panels, refrigerators, and windows to “low-income” farmworkers, including illegal immigrants.

It is believed that providing illegal aliens with free solar panels will please leftist weather gods.

Meanwhile, California faces a $2.9 billion budget shortfall that is predicted to rise, despite the highest income taxes in the nation. Not even 100% taxation could keep up with Democrats’ profligate waste of other people’s money.

On tips from abcanc.

Blue State Taxman Comes After Those Trying to Escape

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You can check out of Hotel California any time you like — but the taxman might never let you leave.

From the Daily Mail:

Americans moving out of California say state bureaucrats are demanding they explain why they left, or risk being taxed as residents.

Some have received letters demanding various evidence of their departure…

Last year, California collected about $275 billion in personal income, sales and corporate taxes. But that does not suffice when Newsom et al. are paying indefinitely for bridges to nowhere, trains to nowhere, 911 emergency lines to nowhere, et cetera.

Officials evaluate a taxpayer’s ‘closest connections’ to determine residency, looking at where they spend their time, where they own or rent property and where their financial and personal ties are strongest. …

Maintaining significant ties to California – even after a move – can trigger further scrutiny.

New York is even worse:

Under the domicile test, officials assess where a person’s closest personal and professional ties are located.

If those ties remain in New York, the state can still treat someone as a resident even if their primary home is elsewhere…

At this point it would be advisable for those who do not wish to be looted to avoid setting foot in California, New York, or anywhere else Democrats have consolidated power.

On a tip from 100 Bravo.

Philadelphia Mayor: How Dare You Object to Excessive Taxation?

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Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker has a response to those who push back against Democrats greedily confiscating and wasting their money. Channeling Greta Thunberg, she snarls, “How dare you?”

Via Fox News:

Parker stood by her proposal to tax ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft to generate revenue for the city’s school district despite opposition from the companies.

During a news conference Wednesday, Parker reiterated her plan to a tax of $1 per ride in Philadelphia amid a $300 million budget deficit.

The extended quote:

“We are open for business here. But how dare you tell me, as mayor of this city, to tell the people in this city, that we cannot and should not enact what is one of the most limited powers that we have. And that is to decide how we will drive revenue to the School District of Philadelphia.”

How dare you object to excessive taxation in Philadelphia, former capital of a country that resulted from a revolution largely inspired by arrogantly greedy taxation?

At least King George III probably found a better use for the loot than flushing it down Philadelphia public schools. Not the Bee reports:

According to the city’s 2025 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, Philly schools already spend $32,122 per student each academic year. Despite this, and the onslaught of new taxes that are funding the “schools,” the city’s schools are draining at a historic rate, with 70,000 or so empty seats in facilities built for a capacity of almost 200,000.

One reason why:

Meanwhile, scores provided by the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that only 15% of Philly 8th graders can do math at grade level and only 18% can read at grade level.

Spending does not improve student outcomes. If it did, kids in profligate hellholes like DC, Baltimore, and Philadelphia would be able to read and write.

On a tip from patthedog.

Democrat Greed Drives Exodus From Blue States

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In case anyone didn’t understand, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon explains why even many liberals want out of states run by liberals. Via Realtor.com:

Dimon said that high taxes and a declining quality of life are key factors pushing residents and businesses out of Democratic-led states.

“I tell people everyone’s got to compete, including cities, and for a city to compete, of course it’s quality of life. It’s your subways. It’s your hospitals,” Dimon said. “But it’s also individual taxes, state taxes, corporate taxes, and it drives people out.”

Washington State is a case in point. Via Seattle Red:

Washington lost half a billion dollars in adjusted gross income to out-migration between 2022 and 2023, right as the state’s capital gains tax was being implemented…

The capital gains tax was supposed to be the line. Democrats held it. Then they passed a 9.9 percent income tax on earnings over one million dollars anyway, and the departure announcements started stacking up within hours.

Even woke Starbucks founder Howard Schultz has bailed out for Florida.

Adam Wright, Vice President of Finance and Accounting at Pacific Rim Land, Inc., posted on LinkedIn that the entire revenue projection for the income tax rests on an assumption already collapsing in real time. When high earners leave, Wright noted, they do not just take their tax payments with them. They take businesses, investments, and jobs.

From the Democrat viewpoint, this is not a bug but a feature. By driving out not only the most productive citizens but also opportunities for others to succeed, they can send a jurisdiction into the Democrat Death Spiral, by which ever more liberal government increasingly drives out everyone but welfare-dependent losers likely to vote for ever more liberal government, creating single party rule.

This maelstrom of moonbattery laid waste to our former wealthiest city Detroit. It is currently destroying cities like Chicago and whole states like California and New York.

On tips from DCGere and Anonymous.

Mamdani Focuses on Looting and Depravity

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To get his hands on more money to fund leftist social engineering, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to extort Albany into raising state taxes.

Estate taxes are among those he wants higher. As Investing.com reports,

Mamdani is pushing to reduce the state’s estate tax exemption threshold by nearly 90%, from over $7 million to $750,000, while raising the top estate tax rate from 16% to 50%.

Only 12 states even have estate taxes, which are imposed on top of federal estate taxes. Mamdani’s proposed threshold would be the lowest of them, meaning the fewest people would escape having their inheritance raided.

Mamdani says raising local taxes to still more outrageous levels will slow the exodus from the degenerating city. Seriously:

PIX11 gives an idea of what Mamdani will spend the money on:

A trans woman, Taylor Brown, has been appointed to the New York City Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Friday.

Mamdani established the new office and appointed Brown, who is currently an Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Attorney General’s Civil Rights Bureau.

Mr. Brown says that he is…

…is eager to collaborate with various agencies to ensure the city protects the LGBTQIA+ community from hostile individuals who do not align with New York City’s values.

Anyone who does not align with these “values” is advised to get out ASAP.

Presenting Mr. Brown:

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