California Liberals Continuous Insanity - "Netflix tax"

[Arkain2K]

And on that note, I think we should return this thread to its original objective now.

Who's better at fleecing tax payers, the insane liberals in California, the insane liberals in Pensylvania, or those insane liberals in Chicago?

My vote is on Pennsylvania, since that seemingly-low 6% Netflix Tax is actually state-wide, not up to individual cities like in California.

There's no where you can run within Pennsylvania to dodge it, and yet it's also low enough that people wouldn't go up in arms about it in the first place.

A 9% sales tax is freakin' steep, but 6% is workable.

Damn sneaky Pennsylvanian liberals.

 

[Bloodworth]

So many illegals and people avoiding taxes. California has no choice but to tax something else.

They are holding on by a thread, schools. Roads. Police, hospitals. All losing money.
California should be a good example why a country and state should examine who is there
Over populating, safe haven cities. Thats self destructive behavior.

Liberals are so dumb they have ruined things themselves

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

And on that note, I think we should return this thread to its original objective now.

Who's better at fleecing tax payers, the insane liberals in California, the insane liberals in Pensylvania, or those insane liberals in Chicago?

My vote is on Pennsylvania, since that seemingly-low 6% Netflix Tax is actually state-wide, and not up to individual cities like in California. There's no where you can run within Pennsylvania to dodge it.

Damn sneaky Pennsylvanian liberals!

so a person cant be against the tax on the grounds of government overreach without a snarky remark -- i think you have led the way on the partisan undertones in this thread.

 

[Arkain2K]

so a person cant be against the tax on the grounds of government overreach without a snarky remark -- i think you have led the way on the partisan undertones in this thread.

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm in total agreement with you. It's just that we've been rudely going off-topic for so long now and should return the thread to the general direction the TS is aiming for in his thread title: bashing on those insane California liberals for inventing this crazy tax!

For the record, I absolutely believe that if a sales tax is charged on Cable and Satellite TVs customers, it should be charged on the Premium digital services aiming to replace them in the same geographical location. That's only fair. I also think that it will eventually be the norm across the country after the dust settles, though the ammount will be wildly different, somewhere between 2% to 10%.

Sales tax is a part of life. There's nothing "insane" about this tax, and it really doesn't matter at all if the city/state is Red or Blue, as long as it's legislated fairly and legally.

 

[nostradumbass]

Are citizens allowed to do anything without the gov't trying to swoop in and take a piece? They shouldn't know whether I have a Netflix account or not, let alone charge me add onto the charge for themselves. I don't even care about the extra dollar, but knowing and taxing what you do online is creepy and invasive.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm in total agreement with you. It's just that we've been rudely going off-topic for so long now and should return the thread to the general direction the TS is aiming for.

I absolutely believe that if a sales tax is charged on Cable and Satellite TVs, it should be charged on the Premium digital services aiming to replace them in the same geographical location. That's fair.

Sales tax is a part of life. There's nothing "insane" about it, as long as it's legislated fairly and legally, no matter if the city/state is Red or Blue.

But if a goal of law is to reduce digital piracy - tacking on an additional tax is not exactly going to sway people from it. Furthermore, video streaming is not a utility, so while it is replacing tv viewing -- it still is delivered through a utility in which people still pay tax on. People dont pay additional taxes on the channels they receive from digital antenna's.

It also come dangerously close to shitting on net neutrality - something that is of real concern to many people. What kind of precedent does it suggest when governments tell private companies you cant charge more for certain online content but the government can tax it? "Sorry, you cant charge more to make up for lost income but the government can? That, to me, is a pretty egregious example of "legal" and state sponsored extortion.

 

[Fedorable]

This could have been a very productive debate about extending Cable/Satellite TV taxes to premium digital Video-on-Demand services aiming to replace them (pros, cons, legality, scope of jurisdictions, et al), but alas, it has already been designed from the very beginning to be a partisan jerk-off thread about "California Liberals Continuous Insanity" instead of tax codes.

Such a shame, but that's all some thread-starters are looking for nowadays I guess.

awww....*zips pants back up*

 

[Arkain2K]

awww....*zips pants back up*

What a filthy liar.

Ain't nobody here wearing pants while on Sherdog!

 

[original doom]

Your suspicion is correct: the people who support and oppose extending the Cable/Satellite TV tax to Digital VOD services aren't actually divided into liberal and conservative camps. If anything, people who have Cable naturally think it's fair, and those who only have Netflix naturally opposes.

Pennsylvania has been collecting their 6% "Netflix Tax" since August, and Chicago has been charging their 9% "Netflix Tax" since last summer, which I'm assuming everyone who enters this thread already knew. Well, except the TS himself, who seems to think it's just been invented now by those insane liberals in California.

Have you americans entered the "taxing online shopping" debate yet ?

Netflix is so cheap that they can sneak in these taxes with little notice from the plebians. This tax has zero to do with fairness or cable viewers vs streamers. Whats to stop Netflix from just saying fuck you and setting up their operation in the cayman islands to avoid taxes haha ?

 

[klnOmega]

How do they know who is using netflicks and who isn't? Are they monitoring internet traffic?

 

[Snake_Plissken]

How do they know who is using netflicks and who isn't? Are they monitoring internet traffic?

Possibly the nsa or some other secret Citizen spying org and they probably beat off along with you when you Watch tgirl porn.

 

[Devout Pessimist]

Is there anything liberals will not tax?

 

[uppercutbus]

Sherdog is next.

NOOOOOOOOOooooooo

 

[7437]

How do they know who is using netflicks and who isn't? Are they monitoring internet traffic?

the same way they know when you buy something on amazon

 

[TheFirstEMP]

This could have been a very productive debate about extending Cable/Satellite TV taxes to premium digital Video-on-Demand services aiming to replace them (pros, cons, legality, scope of jurisdictions, et al), but alas, it has already been designed from the very beginning to be a partisan jerk-off thread about "California Liberals Continuous Insanity" instead of tax codes.

Such a shame, but that's all some thread-starters are looking for nowadays I guess.

Yes, my thread title is the problem. Not the constant taxation that liberals in California constantly push for. I'm sure this thread would have changed their minds.

 

[Protectandserve]

CA just needs more tax revenue so they can continue to waste more of my money.

Gotta pay for all the illegal aliens, sanctuary cities and bullshit feel good projects for all the homeless vagrants causing problems.

 

[Gunny]

How would it even work to begin with?

That was my thought. I don't get how they could even enforce this.

 

[Mr Holmes]

Rahm already did this in Chicago. He didn't need to run it by the council because its not a new tax. He just rewrote an existing one.

 

[HomerThompson]

CA just needs more tax revenue so they can continue to waste more of my money.

Gotta pay for all the illegal aliens, sanctuary cities and bullshit feel good projects for all the homeless vagrants causing problems.

What is a sanctuary city? A genuinely have no idea.

 

[Protectandserve]

What is a sanctuary city? A genuinely have no idea.

LA and San Francisco. They don't cooperate with the feds on immigration holds so they have a giant illegal alien population. And the problems that go with that.