A Laundry List of Taxes

Though the deadline has passed to put measures on the November ballot in California, the State Legislature and other government bodies can waive those deadlines to put a boatload of tax and bond measures to voters.  Among the soak the taxpayers plans on or potentiallly coming to the ballot include:



California Veterans' Housing Bond

California High Speed Passenger Rail Bond

California Children's Hospital Bond

California Alternative Energy Vehicles Bond

City of Los Angeles $30 Million Gang Tax

LA Community College Construction and "Green Technology" $3.5 Billion Bond

LAUSD $3.2 Billion Property Tax Increase for Construction

MTA Half-Cent Sales Tax for Transportation (which they round up by the way)

City of LA Personal Income Tax? (Also known as the "Occupational License Fee")



Of course there a ton of other fees the politicians can raise without your vote such as the trash tax and DWP rate increases.



So when is enough enough? When do we tell the politicians no more?

New Density Incentive That Is A Virtual Zoning Change On Coucil Agenda For Wednesday & Is Villaraigosa Creating New City Income Tax?

VILLARAIGOSA ROLLS THE POLITICAL DICE WITH L.A.'s FUTURE: With Mayor Viagraosa traveling all over the country and spending so much time away from his job as LAUSD cluster-f*cker and occasional mayor of the second biggest U.S. City to campaign so activistly for the quickly sinking Schillary Clinton Presidential dream (more like a nightmare);

when was it decided that a guy could use his position as mayor to roll the dice with the City's political future? You don't see the Mayor of New York or Chicago behaving this way. Here's the problem: What if anyone but Hillary wins? Can you imagine the political payback that will be bestowed upon the City of Los Angeles?

If McCain wins...don't you think he'll return the favor to Antonio for all his effort. The Republicans could withhold money the City and State would have otherwise been granted, if we didn't have a desperate, ego-maniacal,opportunistic, sell out the pueblos embarrassment of three-word speaking Loserosa.

(Hey Villar...next time I see you; NO SHRIMP FOR YOU! And don't stop for a picture with ZD with your camera posse. I can't be seen in a photo with you, loser.)

Just sit your A.D.D. ass in your chair, in your City Hall office...stop attaching your cart to a losing horse and pissing off the rest of Washington, D.C. And you better hope you gal wins, or I don't think you'll like where the U.S. Attorney goes.

RUMOR PATROL: No, this isn't about a fashion designing mayor appointee...here's a comment that almost went un-noticed by ZD:

Anonymous said: Zuma Dogg some lawyers and accountants on the third floor are working on a city personal income tax. February 12, 2008 11:09 AM

Not that ZD is one to jump on a random comment (despite what my critical spinners will try and lead you to believe), however, I was tipped to this, last fall, based on some memos someone sent me, that predicted this was still yet to come -- so this comment is probably in response to this post. SO TO CLARIFY...With Villaraigosa facing a $600-$700 budget deficit, even with Prop S money -- and dropping property values, means less property taxes for the City -- they are going to have to come up with new and creative revenue streams, like a City Personal Income Tax. (Why not just make a blanket tax where the City will allow you to keep 20% of your money, and they take the rest.)

CAPTAIN JACK MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE: Since Cpt Jack tipped ZD's ski cap to this "personal income tax", along with Mayor Sam who also blogged about this, here's an update he just posted with some other new and creative revenue streams on the way:

Captain Jack Sparrow said, "As we understand it, the prevailing sentiment amongst the sots is that since two (puts up two fingers) tax measures have been whisked onto the ballot and handily approved by a rather stupid public-at-large, why not ram as many possible taxes through as one can before someone's good will and another someone's political connections finally run out. Expect to see many new and unusual taxes such as a public school student tax (i.e., if your child attends LAUSD, you pay a head tax), a tax on your overdue library materials fine, a tax on getting a license for your pooch (and soon your pussy) and others to spring forth from that brain trust known as the Clowncil, savvy?

NEW DENSITY INCENTIVE ON LA CITY COUNCIL AGENDA FOR WED 2/13/08: It's the beginning of the end. (See "Escape from New York") It's a long-ass, shady as hell new ordinance on the LA City Council agenda today. Looks like a GREAT day to be a developer with all the right connections with LAANE/CRA/Villaraigosa and his connected cohorts in the high density housing business.

It'll take a minute to type up a comedy review exposing all the shady angles, but basically, if you agree to add 10% affordable housing; a developer can increase density by 20% on your project. 20% affordable housing=35% added density "bonus" (incentive).

PLUS, the developers can now get more State and Federal grant money for these projects. And I'll re-post the threads from last summer about "there is a lot of profit to be made in the non-profit, affordable housing racket.)

Click here for today's agenda item on "density bonus" that will bring the city to a grinding halt, and create so much over crowdedness that crime is certain to skyrocket.

And oh yeah, are you adding 35% more roads, police, fire, trash collection AND WATER!!! THERE IS NOT ENOUGH WATER TO ACCOMMODATE ALL OF THIS ADDED DENSITY -- AND YOU KNOW THIS. AND YOU WILL NEED WATER TO COOL YOU OFF BASED ON WHERE YOU ARE ALL HEADED FOR THIS. Besides the infrastructure -- THIS WILL CAUSE A SERIOUS WATER PROBLEM!!! WARNING...WARNING...THIS IS NOT A TEST!!!

FEATURED COMMENT: LA'S undisputed greatest guitarist Matt Dowd said, "this one has Eli Broad written all over it. Add 20% affordable, get 35% density bonus, AND GET SUBSIDISED TOO!!!!" (Matt tipped ZD to this item and did the initial legalese analysis.)

HILLARY CLINTON: Billary should step out of the way of the Democratic nomination and step down like Romney and Edwards did. With McCain now the virtual nominee, the Democrats need to move forward, and all Clinton is going to do by hanging around is divide the party. If she cares about the country, she should do what's best for the party, and step down and let the nominees get started.
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MEGA-MASTER SHADY REPORT FOR 2/13: Click here for a mega-master thread of the past two days of ZD blogging on this and other sites. All the news before it happens that's fit to print.