Tax Guru – Ker$tetter Letter

As anyone knows, an effective parody has to have a strong foundation in real world true facts.  

An excellent comment on the situation in California is this recent piece from the extremely creative satire website, The Babylon Bee.

California Legislature Unveils Plan To Raise Taxes On Wildfires Until They Move Out Of State

As with all of their parody articles, this one is very concise and pithy, as Bill O’Reilly used to say.  Check out the full thing, but this paragraph does an excellent job of describing the very real and very dangerous mindset of the bozos in power in Sacramento.

"Just as we’ve done with various businesses and private individuals, we will levy ever-increasing taxes on the fires," he said proudly. "Once they realize they’re being taxed to death, they’ll move on to greener pastures like Texas or Arizona." Brown said the taxes will be earmarked for public funding and pensions, but quickly added the state will likely "blow through the cash" on crazy pet projects faster than they could bring it in.

[Update 12/13/18]: Proving once again that the PRC Rulers are themselves parodies of actual leaders, they have one-upped the Babylon Bee by proposing to tax cell phone texts.

California mulls tax on text messaging

So, the question is still a very valid one.  Is there anything that the crazies on the left won’t tax in order to steal more money for themselves?  If George Harrison were still around, he would have to add so many things to his TaxMan song that it would be twice as long.

[Update 12/20/18]: The Babylon Bee has another great parody that could very well come true, given the environmental wackos’ insane blaming of humans breathing out carbon dioxide for the imminent destruction of the planet.

California Considering Tax On Breathing

This article includes another prediction that has actually already come true as part of the Federal TCJA, with its deduction limit of $10,000 for State and Local Taxes (SALT) on the 2018 Schedule A.

…California had unveiled a tax on taxes, charging residents a luxury tax for the privilege of being taxed.

[Update 1/13/19]:  This is not a parody, but one more indicator of California’s continuing slide into total socialism

Gavin Newsom’s budget calls for new tax on drinking water