I like to look at the blog stats, see what people are thinking about, what searches bring them here. I have to wonder if somebody’s just having fun with me when they type in “reanette fillmer stupid bitch.”
What in the world did Ms. Fillmer do this time?
A month or so ago, the lines were bouncing with curiosity and outrage over the Feaster shooting – now it’s the Torres Shelter. Tonight shelter director Brad Montgomery will make some kind of plea before City Council, we’ll see what happens.
A friend of mine asked me what I thought of Chico Chamber chair Mark Francis’ suggestion that Chico is ready for a quarter cent sales tax increase. That reminded me – I need to make another order from Lucky Vitamin. I found Lucky Vitamin a few years ago when former city manager Tom Lando started talking about raising sales tax. I didn’t like online shopping at first, but wow, it’s gotten so much better. Since Lando first broached the subject of a sales tax increase, I’ve found my way onto various shopping sites that offer good prices and free shipping. I find shipping to be getting a lot better, and when there’s a mistake, you don’t have to drive to the store and wait in an onerous line to make your return.
It’s up to the seller to collect sales taxes, and they are not required to do so unless they have a “physical presence” in California. I know Amazon.com has made a deal with the Franchise Tax Board but only for items shipped from a California location. The customer is on the hook to report and pay uncollected sales tax, or “use tax,” but there is no mechanism to sort this out by city, the state just keeps it.
http://blog.taxjar.com/sales-tax-for-california/
Whether or not the city gets the sale tax, local businesses will suffer. They need to know that before they decide whether or not to support a sales tax increase. For a while I got over Lando’s little threat, but I shop online more now than I did, and Francis has pissed me off again.
Sheesh, Nevada is a day trip, do they realize that?
It’s funny-weird, not funny-ha-ha, that Francis’ wife Jolene has brought a proposal to rename City Hall after former City Mangler Fred Davis. Davis, until his recent death, was one of the biggest pigs in our pension trough.
How did that old guy worm his way up to over $149,000, in pension? He helped Tom Lando pull off that MOU that “attached salaries to revenue increases, but not decreases…” That’s how! Old bastard had a bag of tricks, and long after he’s rotted to dirt, Chico taxpayers will be paying for his hijinx.
Time to mount up, get ready for battle – they are coming after the roof over your head, the food on your table, your kids’ education.
It’s the Battle for Chico.
Chico Taxpayers Association 
Chico Chamber chair Mark Francis’ suggestion that Chico is ready for a quarter cent sales tax increase…
There have been large increases in utility bills, water bills and now a new garbage tax (what the “franchise fee” really is). There have also been large increases in Obamacare. And with the exception of gasoline, the necessities of life continue to go up.
And now the economy is slowing (after never fully recovering from the last crash). Heck, we may already be in a recession.
I’d say the only ones ready for a sales tax increase are the tax eaters.
I think you’re right, I think we are having a ‘W’ recession, and the second dip is straight ahead. Houses are over-inflated again, all the same indicators as the last dip.