Category Archives: Taxes

Joy Reid Warns of What Conservatives Want for USA

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When liberals stridently warn us about the fascistic doom the GOP behind Trump has in store for us, they mean more than foreign invaders sometimes getting deported. Joy Reid gives specifics on the fate America could face:

• No income taxes.
• Less regulation on businesses.
• Earn as much money as you want.
• Leave all your money to your children without the government confiscating it.

Brace yourself for a frightening message:

Joyless’s proclamation that Republicans “need people to want fewer things” would seem to contradict her assertion that they will let us earn more money and keep it — until you realize she specifically means they need for people to want fewer things that they did not earn.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Australia May Tax Unused Bedrooms

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As the Beatles used to sing:

(If you drive a car, car) I’ll tax the street
(If you try to sit, sit) I’ll tax your seat
(If you get too cold, cold) I’ll tax the heat
(If you take a walk, walk) I’ll tax your feet
Taxman!

Apparently George Harrison could not come up with a good rhyme for unused bedrooms — which may be taxed in Australia.

Urges Eliza Owen of the property research group Cotality:

“Governments could make it more expensive to have more housing than you need, and cheaper to live in smaller housing.”

Big Government will decide how much housing you need.

Equity cannot be achieved without tyranny. This is great news for the taxman.

On a tip from R F.

Oregon Requires Paid Permit to Paddle Board

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Succumbing to liberal rule means every aspect of life is taxed and regulated without mercy. Oregon will soon require a $20 permit to stand on a floating board and paddle around.

Via Oregon Catalyst:

Beginning in January 1, 2026, all kayaks, rafts, and stand-up paddleboards (SUPs) will require a permit.

The permit could be a 7-day permit ($6) or annual permit ($20). …

The agency says they must do this to educate and work against invasive species.

They apparently mean tourists.

At the same time, the same agency is jacking up camping fees for out-of-state residents by 25% this summer.

As if Portland wasn’t enough reason to avoid Oregon.

The Beatles used to sing, “If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street; if you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.” They forgot to mention paddle boards.

On a tip from Straight Shootr.

Greedy Taxes Drive the Productive Out of Northeast

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The truism “Get woke, go broke” applies not only to companies that succumb to moonbattery but to whole regions — like New York and New Jersey, which have lost $142 billion in income in the past decade.

Stephen Moore reports:

From 2015 to 2024, New York has lost 2 million residents.

As a refugee from New York, I can attest that leftism was already making the once great state unlivable when I escaped back in 2006.

[T]he movers are taking a lot of personal income and purchasing power with them. From 2012 to 2022, New York has lost $111 billion in income while Jersey is down by more than $31 billion.

Because the income is lost forever — except for the rare cases when the exiles move back — these income losses accumulate year after year.

Not many will be moving back. That would be like getting over the Berlin Wall, then going back the other way.

High among the reasons to avoid Democrat rule is excessive taxation:

New York, New Jersey and California are the three biggest losers in the interstate migration sweepstakes, and they just happen to be the states with the highest state-local income tax add-ons. The big winner states like Florida and Texas have no income tax at all.

The highest income tax in the entire country is inflicted in New York City.

Now one of the leading candidates for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, wants to raise the tax on the rich by another 2 percentage points.

How many of the billionaires this silver spoon Stalinist demonizes will stick around to be looted?

Liberals are reducing their Northeast/California bicoastal power base to pockets of rust. The silver lining is that blue states can serve as a cautionary tale for the rest of the country.

Democrats might be able to prop up blue state populations through mass Third World immigration and by paying women to have babies out of wedlock. If they can replace enough of the productive citizens they are driving out, they might prevail in national elections. Then the other states will be forced to perpetually pay their bills.

Fortunately, the Founding Fathers avoided directly proportional democracy so as to prevent densely populated regions from enslaving the rest of the country. You can see why moonbats want to abolish the Electoral College and even the Senate.

On a tip from Jack D.

Democrats Tax Sleep

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Sleep is precious. You can go much longer without food than you can without sleep. So of course Democrats want to tax it.

From Maryland:

Democrats pushed through HB 858—a bill that establishes a mattress stewardship program under the guise of promoting safe disposal and recycling. This is another tax on Marylanders as the state sinks into financial turmoil and elevated credit downgrade risks. The new 6% tax on mattresses is on top of the existing 6% sales tax.

How can taxpayers object? It’s for the environment.

The money will be thrown into the maw of a leftist state government that faces a $3.3 billion budget shortfall. By now we know from experience that seizing more money will not close the gap between what Democrats confiscate and what they spend. Rather, it will inspire them to spend even more irresponsibly.

Republican Delegate Mark Fisher wonders what’s next after “mattress stewardship”:

We could have seen this coming back when the Beatles were singing,

(If you drive a car)
I’ll tax the street
(If you try to sit)
I’ll tax your seat
(If you get too cold)
I’ll tax the heat
(If you take a walk)
I’ll tax your feet

And they’ll tax your mattress if you try to sleep.

On tips from Franco and R F.

New York Democrats Counter Trump With Tax Threat

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New York Democrats enraged over Trump reigning in the federal Leviathan are falling back on their favorite standby — namely, taxation:

Gov. Kathy Hochul and US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand warned that the possible Department of Education eradication President Trump has alluded to will cause property taxes to spike across the state. …

“This is $5.5 billion that the State receives annually from the Department of Education — $3.2 billion goes directly into our budget, $2.3 billion goes to localities. If that money is jeopardized, what I can tell you will happen, localities lose that money, they will have to raise taxes,” Hochul said.

You mean New Yorkers might have to pay to have their children corrupted and indoctrinated rather than educated instead of the rest of the country being forced to finance it? The horror!

Of course, New Yorkers would no longer have to finance the ruining of children’s minds in other parts of the country. But then, other parts of the country might not go along with the Department of Education’s leftist agenda after the federal Swamp has relinquished control of education. That’s what has Hochul so mad.

On tips from Wiggins and WDS 2.0.

Democrat Death Spiral Deepens in New York State

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The illegal immigration crisis is worse than some realize. Citing data from the Center for Migration Services, a report from Kathy Hochul’s administration acknowledges 470,100 undocumented workers in New York alone, accounting for nearly one in six employees — and that’s just the illegal aliens who have jobs. We are told that the deportations Trump promised will send the state’s economy into a tailspin by depleting manpower.

Few people in the country illegally are involved in high-skilled trades. Says Hochul,

“Most of them work as construction workers, maids/housekeepers, cooks, home and personal care aides, janitors, and delivery drivers, among other occupations.”

Yet for unspecified reasons they cannot be replaced by Americans currently on welfare.

Exacerbating the problem,

Hochul’s report also noted that remote work has contributed to an exodus of New York residents to lower cost states.

Seems like only yesterday Hochul was sneering that New York Republicans should move to Florida — as many have.

Since New York Democrats are worried about the economy, they must be planning to stop spending so much. Or maybe not. Consider the fiscal year 2026 budget:

The budget is a whopping $252 billion, up about $9 billion from the year before, as Hochul advocates for even more government spending and more “redistribution” — a euphemism for confiscating income and giving it to someone who didn’t earn it.

A formerly temporary tax increase will be extended.

These higher tax rates are a key reason why New York is hemorrhaging people at an alarming rate — the fastest rate, in fact, of any state.

At least New York has plenty of clean-burning natural gas it can extract to generate revenue. But I’m forgetting: that would offend the climate.

Meanwhile,

Hochul’s proposed budget also costs taxpayers more than $1 billion in failed “green” energy “investments” that have negative real returns.

Once a city has entered the Democrat Death Spiral — whereby Democrat policies drive out productive citizens, resulting in an ever more Democrat electorate — it is as doomed as formerly wealthy Detroit. As New York has shown, the same applies at the state level.

On tips from Wiggins and Jack D.