Little story that I find amusing:

As many of you are aware the State of California is behind the eight ball in terms of its finances. Cash strapped is the term. So into order to bridge the gap the State is imposing a 10% surcharge on the amount of State income taxes being withheld from every worker in CA. Effective November 1st 2009. Right before the holidays. When the real unemployment figure in CA is quickly approaching 20%. Of course, “they” say this isn’t a new tax and the taxpayers will be refunded the extra money come tax day 2010 (right, just like that one year temporary one cent increase in the Sales tax to help pay for the Northridge earthquake back in 1994 that still is in effect). Think of it as a loan to the State, an involuntary loan, that is. The State figures to raised 1.1 billion through this sleigh of hand trick, and it was done in a way that almost no one in CA knew it was coming (way to go, CA media). Needless to say, folks out here are PISSED.

Anyway, at work I have a die-hard Democrat / Obama supporter who was complaining to me about this stealth tax and we had the following exchange:

“I can believe they’d do this right before Christmas. What wrong with you guys?”

“What you mean, us guys??”

“You Republicans. You’re supposed to stop shit like this.”

Needless to say, I was dumb-founded. A Democrat looking to the Republicans to save him from the taxes his party imposes on him (Democrats have nearly 3/5ths of the seats in both houses of the state legislature). File it in the “you can’t make stuff like this up” folder.

Change is a coming, folks, if die-hard Democrats start complaining about the taxes.