Received a Bill for State Tax on An Amp Bought in Canada Last Year

Cleeds,

I don’t think you are correct. It only applies to retail sales, even the link says this. How the heck would you pay it! Ha!  You don’t file a state income tax form. Makes no sense

Wow.  So much California Bashing.  Most have no real clue what they are actually talking about.

Laws were passed some years ago regarding internet sales and that sales taxes had to be reported to the IRS.  Most people still don't do that by-the-way.

Also, this is one major area where internet sales prices were lower than brick and mortar store prices.  The internet seller didn't add sales taxes to the total price. So, brick and mortar stores started failing.  now people are actually complaining that there are not stores in their neighborhoods.  Go figure.

I for one prefer to do business with local brick and mortar stores, pay slightly more to have them stay in business.  but that's me.  But, it is getting harder to find them now.  Especially book stores.  Still have Vroman's in Pasadena.  Wow, what a book store.

I for one have absolutely no problem paying extra taxes for public health care and other things. I think that is what a civilized country should do.  But again, that is just me.  

as far as sales tax is concerned, I know California and many other states passed laws mandating that sales tax has to be recorded and paid for new and used equipment.  I don't understand the need for sales taxes on used equipment, when the sales tax was initially paid with the original purchase.  Seems like double dipping.  I don't think this is fair.  But, maybe I'm missing something. 

If a person buys something new in California, they pay the sales tax.  If they sell it to another person in California, why should there be a second sales tax?  don't get that one.

enjoy

• "The rest are residents who fell on hard times, mostly through medical bills that bankrupted them."

Most of the homeless population is suffering from substance abuse and/or suffering from mental illnesses of one type or another.

What are the compassionate policies being offered by the extremists on the radical left doing to solve the problem, other than to exacerbate it? 

https://www.smobserved.com/story/2017/07/10/opinion/aclu-lawsuit-caused-the-big-expansion-of-homeles...

We have the most populous state, by far, of any in the nation. 40 million people reside here and 2nd place goes to Texas, with 29 million

Nice dance son. CA has 12% of the US population, and 28% of the US homelessness. Read and weep.
http://www.civicdashboards.com/state/california-04000US06/percent_of_us_population

https://shou.senate.ca.gov/sites/shou.senate.ca.gov/files/Homelessness%20in%20CA%202020%20Numbers.pd...https://shou.senate.ca.gov/sites/shou.senate.ca.gov/files/Homelessness%20in%20CA%202020%20Numbers.pdf

and in some states, it’s much, much worse

Go ahead, name them there states that are “ much much worse”.

(I’m wondering if you’re going name NY, OR or WA)

A lot of the homeless come here to get away from other states that treat them poorly.

FLMAO! Boy, I nearly ruptured my spleen. Yes, you treat them so well that they are forced to live in tents and use the streets as their bathrooms. You guys sure are very nice …

Using google, look up any state and their homeless rate, and compare that to their population as a whole, and get back to me on what you find out.

Something YOU should be doing.

While doing that, also look into what each state does for their working poor as well as their homeless.

In other states*, there is no such thing as “working poor”. Taxes and cost of living expenses are low enough for the low income to have good standard of living.

NOT the case in CA.

*Not including CA “sister” states.

PS: a real quick search showed your stats to be misinterpreted, at best, or an outright lie, at worse

The URLs I provide say otherwise. Just because the truth hurts, doesn’t make it misinterpretation, outright lies or “worse”. 

I'll just add; 20 years ago I was trying to get a position in San Diego, but just couldn't. There was nothing available. Now, even during the the Covid scare, I'm getting head hunters cold calling me with positions all up and down the coast. They cannot fill the positions. Nobody with a grain of sense is interested in moving to CA anymore. 

Taxes and cost of living is low enough for the low income to have good standard of living??????  Wow.  That is such a mistaken false statement, but helps me understand why certain people do nothing to help solve the problems.

Same thought for slavery. the slave owners justified slavery in many ways but one was that the slaves should be happy.  We provide housing and food.  Where they came from they lived in tents and caves.  That was the thinking.  They used that just like the writer above to justify low income and poverty. 

I would bet good money that that writer was never poor to make such a ridiculous insulting statement.  

Most people have no real clue regarding the causes of homelessness.  just going by what they were told or read in some news paper article.

enjoy