{"id":12251,"date":"2009-11-06T13:34:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/06\/california-grabs-ten-percent-more-in-withholding\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T13:34:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T13:34:37","slug":"california-grabs-ten-percent-more-in-withholding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/06\/california-grabs-ten-percent-more-in-withholding\/","title":{"rendered":"California Grabs Ten Percent More in Withholding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">One of the defining characteristics of liberals and leftists is a deep-seated quasi-religious belief in the benevolence and efficacy of big government, the bigger the better, and this despite repeated demonstrations of government incompetence, inanity, mendacity,&#0160;and trickery. &#0160;<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5j_y1QW6gvpDrSof2RoPtvEoEpDSAD9BNJTC80\"><font face=\"Georgia\">This<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> from the Associated Press (emphasis added):<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 California wage earners will soon notice a little less money in their paychecks. Starting Monday, employers in the cash-strapped state are required to withhold 10 percent more in state income taxes to help ease the budget problems. It&#39;s part of <strong>a plan to artificially inflate state revenue<\/strong> by $1.7 billion through next June.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Brenda Voet, a spokeswoman for the state Franchise Tax Board, says <strong>it&#39;s technically not a tax increase since workers will get their money back after April 15.<\/strong> A single wage earner making $51,000 a year with no dependents will get about $4 less a week.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">So it&#39;s just an accounting trick?&#0160; But it is worse than that: an arbitrary&#0160;seizure of citizens&#39; money &#39;justified&#39; by the principle that might makes right, that what one can do, one is justified in doing.&#0160; You&#39;ve heard of &#39;ought&#39; implies &#39;can&#39;?&#0160; This is&#0160; &#39;can&#39; implies &#39;may.&#39;&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">It will be interesting to see if&#0160; the California taxpayers get their money back.&#0160; Where will that money come from, yet another accounting&#0160; trick?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the defining characteristics of liberals and leftists is a deep-seated quasi-religious belief in the benevolence and efficacy of big government, the bigger the better, and this despite repeated demonstrations of government incompetence, inanity, mendacity,&#0160;and trickery. &#0160;This from the Associated Press (emphasis added): SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 California wage earners will soon notice a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/06\/california-grabs-ten-percent-more-in-withholding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California Grabs Ten Percent More in Withholding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-money-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}