A New Joke: California!
Get it? California! OK, you should be laughing now. You're not? Yeah, me neither. I've now totally had it with this shithole state once and for all. Apparently our wonderful Governator, Arnie, announced to the great state of Kalee forn yuh that we are broke. We will be out of money by February. Fine, we're out of money, it's only some bullshit accounting, right? Nope. If they don't figure out the budget soon, the state will issue IOUs instead of checks for income tax refunds. You heard that right: the sate will give me an IOU.
Now, I've already paid my money. The state actually has MY MONEY. They owe it back to me. And for those of you who say "Oh, well you should have claimed the right withholding," that doesn't work for me. Since the lab switched over to private ownership, we as students were forced to pay our own tuition. They raised our salaries the exact amount that tuition was so that we could pay for it. Sounds good except for one little detail: our tuition has to come from our post-tax pay. So it looks like I'm making about 33-40% more than I actually am, since $10,000 of it a year goes to tuition. Of that $10k, I get about $7k after tax, so I have to front the extra $3k until tax time when I get that money back, since it is a fair deduction/credit for education. Except that this year, I'm not getting my state money back, which is a LOT because it's not only my NORMAL salary tax, but it's part of that $3k in tuition, and it's ALSO the extra tax taken out because that salary boost to cover tuition puts me in a higher tax bracket. Oh yeah, it's a fucking shitstorm of awesome. And, since I can only claim 1 dependent (unless I claim my plants and my cello, none of which I think the IRS would approve), I only get that in withholding due to the way that this shit ass lab system works.
In short, I am fucked. Kalifornia will fuck me in the ass as hard as it can before I leave. And when I leave, I will stop on the Nevada border and piss into Kalifornia to show my disdain of this godforsaken piece of shit.
Why is this state out of money? Lots of reasons, including gross entitlements, illegal immigrants, tax loopholes for the rich, but mostly: we have incompetent legislators. We have retarded amounts of entitlements in this state. Why does the city of Berkeley spend money to provide lockers for the homeless? The illegal immigrants keep our produce prices low, but they're paid in cash, never pay income tax, and they use our tax dollars for heathcare and schools. Then there's the loopholes for the rich, like how if you take your luxury yacht out into international waters to transfer the title, you don't have to pay tax.
But the worst are the legislators that put all this into existence at all. The fools pass TONS of useless legislation that is a waste of money. Why do we have to spend a tremendous amount of money on keeping records of gun owners and every transaction they make? Why do we have to make it illegal for someone to buy a car from out of state, and all the investigation that entails? Where does the money go from our 'California recycle value' deposit we put on our plastic jugs, because if you turn them in at a recycle center, you sure as hell never see the $0.10 per bottle you pay. Why do we have this ridiculous smog system that doesn't keep smog out of our cities? Why do we have the highest gas prices in the nation, yet a coastline full of refineries? This whole place is a big waste of money and time as far as I'm concerned. Come visit, see the cool trees at Sequoia and Muir Woods, then leave.
It'll be nice to get to New Mexico next week and get out of this state, if only for a short while.
Now, I've already paid my money. The state actually has MY MONEY. They owe it back to me. And for those of you who say "Oh, well you should have claimed the right withholding," that doesn't work for me. Since the lab switched over to private ownership, we as students were forced to pay our own tuition. They raised our salaries the exact amount that tuition was so that we could pay for it. Sounds good except for one little detail: our tuition has to come from our post-tax pay. So it looks like I'm making about 33-40% more than I actually am, since $10,000 of it a year goes to tuition. Of that $10k, I get about $7k after tax, so I have to front the extra $3k until tax time when I get that money back, since it is a fair deduction/credit for education. Except that this year, I'm not getting my state money back, which is a LOT because it's not only my NORMAL salary tax, but it's part of that $3k in tuition, and it's ALSO the extra tax taken out because that salary boost to cover tuition puts me in a higher tax bracket. Oh yeah, it's a fucking shitstorm of awesome. And, since I can only claim 1 dependent (unless I claim my plants and my cello, none of which I think the IRS would approve), I only get that in withholding due to the way that this shit ass lab system works.
In short, I am fucked. Kalifornia will fuck me in the ass as hard as it can before I leave. And when I leave, I will stop on the Nevada border and piss into Kalifornia to show my disdain of this godforsaken piece of shit.
Why is this state out of money? Lots of reasons, including gross entitlements, illegal immigrants, tax loopholes for the rich, but mostly: we have incompetent legislators. We have retarded amounts of entitlements in this state. Why does the city of Berkeley spend money to provide lockers for the homeless? The illegal immigrants keep our produce prices low, but they're paid in cash, never pay income tax, and they use our tax dollars for heathcare and schools. Then there's the loopholes for the rich, like how if you take your luxury yacht out into international waters to transfer the title, you don't have to pay tax.
But the worst are the legislators that put all this into existence at all. The fools pass TONS of useless legislation that is a waste of money. Why do we have to spend a tremendous amount of money on keeping records of gun owners and every transaction they make? Why do we have to make it illegal for someone to buy a car from out of state, and all the investigation that entails? Where does the money go from our 'California recycle value' deposit we put on our plastic jugs, because if you turn them in at a recycle center, you sure as hell never see the $0.10 per bottle you pay. Why do we have this ridiculous smog system that doesn't keep smog out of our cities? Why do we have the highest gas prices in the nation, yet a coastline full of refineries? This whole place is a big waste of money and time as far as I'm concerned. Come visit, see the cool trees at Sequoia and Muir Woods, then leave.
It'll be nice to get to New Mexico next week and get out of this state, if only for a short while.
posted by ChemicalJesus at 1:27 AM
2 Comments:
Guess when you get your IOU, you take it to your HR/Payroll dept and tell them you have already payed this much in taxes this year, so stop pulling out state income tax withholding on your paychecks.
I did go in today and claimed maximum exemptions for state withholding for 2009. Fuckers.
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