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We don’t need no stinking Hadron Collider – CA has the FTB

In case you haven’t read about my tax fiasco post, I jacked up my 2008 taxes and had to cough up an additional $16,000.  I’d like to give you an update on the aftermath.

The IRS Version

After sending them an amended return and the scrilla I owed, I got a letter back basically saying that they got my shit and nothing further is needed at this time and if they need anything else, they will let me know.  How do you like that?  No interest.  No penalty.  I don’t get it, but I love it.

The CA Franchise Tax Boad Version

You owe us $458 in interest.  If we do not receive it within 30 days from the date of this notice, we may put a lien on your personal assets. 

  1. There was no fucking date on the notice, but I had to believe them when they said 30 days, so I used the postmark date to be safe.
  2. I go to mail the money before the 30 days are up and happened to see something that I didn’t see before.  The payment was due on October 13th, or some damn thing like, not the end of the month like I thought and it was already the 15th. 
  3. About three weeks after mailing the payment, the check still hadn’t cleared my Wells Fucko account.
  4. I called the FTB and checked my balance.  I now owed a few bucks more in interest.  The fuckers never posted the check.  I never got to speak to a real person because the wait was too long.
  5. Had to get a stop payment on the check.  That cost me $29.  Oh, and to add insult to injury, Wells Fucko stop payments are only good for 6 months.  WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THAT?  So WTF am I supposed to do, keep spending $29 every fucking 6 months to keep it stopped?  JHC!  This needs a class action lawsuit.
  6. I had to cut another check.

I have learned this horrible lesson at least 3-4 times before.  Things being sent to the government (both the IRS and the FTB) have a way of disappearing.  I am convinced the government is experimenting with black holes.  I now send everything Return Receipt Requested…except this time.  I didn’t even think of it, yet  I know better.  I could kick myself.  I think I was too frazzled when I saw I was already late and that’s why I never thought about doing it.  But once again, they didn’t get it.

I have never, in my entire life, EVER had credit card or utility payment go missing.  It only happens with the government.  And you know what the worst part is?  Having to prove you sent it.  Having to tell them the check really IS in the mail.  The burden of proof lands in the taxpayer’s lap, yet they are the ones fucking losing mail.  fuckers

Cash For Clunkers aka The New Buyers Remorse

The government set the stage with the Cash for Clunkers program and in a few months the banks will begin acting out Part Deux of the hit play, “What’s Mine is Mine and What’s Yours is Mine.”  Read what the Mogambo Guru has to say about it.

All you dumbasses who bought into the hype of those ARMs or interest only mortgages, you got what you deserved.  Beats me WTF made you think you could make those payments.  Well, it’s about to be played out again when you find out you can’t make your Cash for Clunkers car payments.  R E P O S S E S S I O N!  I like the way that rolls off the tongue.  Just like M I S S I S S I P P I.  LMAO

Not only can’t you make your car payments, but you can’t pay the insurance on the damn thing.  Bet you kinda overlooked that part when you drove off the lot, huh.

But there is a silver lining to this gray cloud.  Sorta like Dog the Bounty Hunter, you will witness the birth of a whole new kind of entrepreneur – The Repo Man, not to mention all the new country western songs written about them.  If I were you I’d sell that new car and buy a tow truck and go into business for yourself. 

Just like a bounty hunter, the repo man gets paid a reward for bringing it those cars.  It’s going to get cutthroat out on the streets.  They will stalk you.  They’ll hire stakeout artists, or whatever the fuck they’re called, the people who sit in their cars down the street from yours and wait for you to turn out the lights when you go to bed.  Then they’ll text message the repo man that the coast is clear.  Stakeout person gets a few bills and the repo man collects his reward.

Here are some tips for keeping your new car when you can’t make the payments.

  • Do not park your car outside at night.  They WILL repossess it.  True story…years ago a co-worker called into work one morning and said his car was stolen the night before.  Usually he parked it in the garage.  I know, because I’ve been to his house.  Truth be told, the dumbass fell asleep on the couch after mass quantities of beer and tequila and failed to pull the truck into the garage.  Months later he told me the truth of what really happened.  No one stole the damn thing, it got repossessed because the fucker was too busy blowing his green on alcohol and wasn’t making his car payments. 
  • Do not drive your car to work.  They know where you work.  They WILL repossess it.
  • Do not drive your car to the grocery store.  They will follow you.  They WILL repossess it.
  • Leave it parked in your garage at all times.  If they try to steal if from in there it will be breaking and entering.  Don’t know if they can get the cops with a search warrant and I ain’t about to research it for you, dumbass.
  • If you don’t have a garage, rent a storage unit and hide the fucker.
  • But if there is no hope, leave you car parked outside at night with the doors unlocked and let the bums sleep in it.  That way when they tow it away you kill two birds with one stone – the car and the bums will be gone in the morning. 
  • Make your car payments.

And even if they do take your car, your misery isn’t over because you still owe the money!  ROTFLMMFAO  Dude, get a bike.

Private Contractors Draining California’s Cash

July 21, 2009 the Sacramento Bee reported that CA is wasting millions of dollars hiring private contractors.  Absolutely, it goes on.  Assemblyman Mike Eng, D-Monterey Park wants greater transparency.  I agree, but not because all contractors are shysters, but because the left hand (the state) doesn’t know what the right hand (the people running the state departments) is doing. Continue reading