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Topic: Calif looking at taxing Amusement Park Tickets

#	Author	Message
31	ecdc Fri 5/2/2008 4:41p	>>Terrific. Just what our country needs as a President. Another old white guy.<< Aren't you better off today than you were seven years ago? Hello? Anyone?
32	DyGDisney Fri 5/2/2008 9:50p	Cereally??? Are you Fruit Loopy??
33	DAR Fri 5/2/2008 10:15p	<<Terrific. Just what our country needs as a President. Another old white guy.>> It was a response to deleted post you see above my original post. There's a few posts that just have random things said today.
34	DAR Fri 5/2/2008 10:18p	<<Aren't you better off today than you were seven years ago? Hello? Anyone?>> I'll be honest and not sound cocky or anything but I really can't say too much is changed. I have a home and a very good job. I do have a second job, but I do that so I can get into the Brewers games for free. I realize I'm one of the luckier ones but I won't ever apologize for that.
35	EighthDwarf Sat 5/3/2008 10:14a	Any time there is an addition to or an increase of a consumption tax, the entire amount of the tax is rarely passed on to the customer -- at least initially. Such a dramatic price increase would decrease demand and therefore total revenues for the product. So the tax would be split between the producer and the consumer (though the consumer's share would increase over time). Bottom line is that California needs the revenue. Over the past 15 years they have had strong revenues due to the technology and housing booms, but that is over for the foreseeable future. With their huge budget deficit, constitutionally locked-in spending (based on past revenues) and a lagging credit rating, they really don't have any option but to increase taxes.
36	EighthDwarf Sat 5/3/2008 10:18a	<<Aren't you better off today than you were seven years ago? Hello? Anyone?>> Yes, but I don't credit the president with that at all. I have busted my donkey and am reaping the rewards.
37	SFH Sat 5/3/2008 12:04p	>>Really? I understand it would be an increase, but Disney usually raises ap prices every year anyway.<< That's fine. If I choose whether or not I want to support Disney. I still do. I also choose whether or not I want to support another tax. I don't. And if theme/amusement parks don't keep the pressure on via their lobbyists and they let it happen, Disney will lose, too. I pay property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, utility taxes, and a whole range of other taxes. I am not going to pay taxes on Disneyland admission. Enough already. Actually, I could probably deduct those. But it is the principle. SFH
38	dshyates Sat 5/3/2008 1:05p	"Aren't you better off today than you were seven years ago? Hello? Anyone?" No. No, I'm not. Seven years ago I lived in in a small house in Denver with my wife and 2 kids. Now, I am divorced, live in my parents garage in WV, and as of now I'm unemployed (but that is a recent development, and won't last long. which will solve some of the other problems). But I'm a news photographer and I'm going to have to move at least several hundred miles away from my kids to make enough money to live on. No, I'm not better off now.
39	DAR Sat 5/3/2008 1:16p	<<Now, I am divorced>> I'm sorry to hear that but you can't really blame that on this administration.
40	dshyates Sat 5/3/2008 2:47p	Well, The divorce happened about a year after the foreclosure and we had moved back into my folks house. And what happened in Denver wasn't cause by W. It had to do with the boom and bust of the cable industry there. When the national TV and communication center opened there it became the cable hub of the planet. Every cable channel in America opened a shop there and the need for industry pros was fantastic. I was already there, but watching it was very interesting. So people flooded in to get all these new shops up and running. They hired like crazy. And for about 2.5 years it was a great place to be. After they got up and running they started to slash their operating staff. Hallmark would lay off 750 people at one time. HBO 500. Things like that. The shop I was at went belly up because of some mismanagement problems in the face of the quickly changing market. Suddenly I found myself unemployed in a bad market for TV guys. And the downward spiral began.I found a new job but I was making a lot less. Nothing in my situation was the administrations fault, but what else was happen around me certainly didn't help. Like when it came time to sell the house, while I wasn't locked into a toxic mortgage some of the other 1600 houses in foreclosure in my zip code were. Recently at my job, because of the sluggish economy, my boss wanting to cut my hours below full time to on-call. I would lose my benis and still be committed to going and shooting video 5 nights a week (if needed). She knew I would walk. Now I'm going to go south in search of more money. The Democratic leadership here isn't helping anything. The UMW has a straggle hold on the labor laws therefore it is not a right to work state. They shoot scabs here. Things for me would simply be a lot better if this isn't where my Ex choose to plant the kids. And that's not W. fault either. I was working for nothing here just to be near my kids, but when I lost my job, it has forced my hand. I have resumes out from Columbus, OH to Miami. With 15 years experience I am confident that I can find a job without having to shoot live shots in the snow in Buffalo. So while my personal slide wasn't W.'s fault it felt like he was greasing the slide and removing things to grab on to like needing to sell a house in a collapsing home market and now being unemployed in a softening jobs market. I may be wrong I just feel I would be in better shape if I had encountered these speed bumps in life under some other administration. Sorry to bore you guys with my pathetic story.

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