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Re: World gone mad...
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:47 pm
by Jeff Shyu
KJ Christopher wrote:Marshall Grice wrote:Steve Ekstrand wrote:2008 was unusual spending, but it would have cost us an additional ~$3500.
doing some quick math, a 2% increase in sales tax costing you 3500 dollars means you spent roughly 175,000 dollars this year?

trucks, trailers, cars, house remodels
he's an
atm machine.
think of what it would be if they collected sales tax on his hookers-n-blow.
AHHHHHHH!!!!
Re: World gone mad...
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:27 pm
by Aaron Goldsmith
Jeff Shyu wrote:KJ Christopher wrote:
trucks, trailers, cars, house remodels
he's an atm machine.
think of what it would be if they collected sales tax on his hookers-n-blow.
AHHHHHHH!!!!
haha, Jeff's head just exploaded! Maybe he uses his PIN NUMBER while reading a UPC CODE. Watch out for that HIV VIRUS and those CSS STYLE SHEETS. haha
Re: World gone mad...
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:30 pm
by Jeff Shyu
Re: World gone mad...
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:58 pm
by Steve Ekstrand
Marshall Grice wrote:doing some quick math, a 2% increase in sales tax costing you 3500 dollars means you spent roughly 175,000 dollars this year?

But think... That's like $70K I didn't have a chance to lose in the market!!!
Re: World gone mad...
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:18 pm
by Sebastian Rios
Steve Ekstrand wrote:Sebastian Rios wrote:I am totally blown away that 1A passed...bridge to nowhere.
2: Well, it just got harder to do business in CA, that's nothing new, I'm all right with the farmers having to re-tool.
There is a small(ish) commercial egg farm that I pass on a regular basis at lunch, they have been doing well since they opened in the early 90s, it'll be interesting to see how they fare now.
They are gone Seb. Its a unilateral measure. Eggs will simply be raised outside our borders and trucked in. Its a low margin business with plenty of competition. Its over for them.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleash ... mers-.html
Follow up on Prop 2 about chicken coops.
I found it interesting that there was already a standard set forth by an industry group, Prop 2 looks less invasive when to me now that I realize most egg farmers were probably already following the standard.