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Holy moly, Kristin! 9.25%????? Yikes! No wonder you'd turned "realist." I think that would make me one! I'm glad we moved away. It's been so long, I've finally stopped thinking like a CA nut and now I think like a Georgia peach. Not sure if that's any better, though.
So true, Kristin! I choose to look at life with the half-full mentality, but I have my "realist" moments.
Thanks for the reminder!
Did the whole state go up to that?? That's insane!! Of course, here in KS, they tax us on food (at 6.3%, but still!)...so annoying!
Girl, I know. I have to remind myself daily to be an optimist. It's very hard to be optimistic when you work with the public and they yell at you. Yesterday was a worse than normal day so i came home, read blogs and sewed to calm myself. This morning I was thinking about your post about optimism and I decided I needed to use my new Bath and Body Aromatherapy body wash called "Optimism"! Isn't that just perfect? I just breathed in the scent and tried to get myself in a better mentality today. I hope it works:) hehe.
In some places, the tax is over 10% -- it depends on your county. So painful!
In answer to your question Sally, I think the whole state has been insane for a long time. We just keep spending without fixing anything, it's frightening, and now the country is following us.
I'm telling you, we have to be optimists and know as long as we can eat, drink and be merry, God's got us covered.
Oh and take a bath Abby. We need that too. LOL
I've been saying (ever since I moved from CA) that California is only 10-20 years ahead of the rest of the country.
I'm going to be going to CA next week for Easter. I was planning on maybe buying some stuff... don't think I will now.
I think that's so true. I just wish the rest of the country could watch and learn. I honestly wonder why we teach history in schools. No one seems to change their behavior because of it. The human race is an interesting one. LOL
So, my hopes for my Optimistic body wash didn't work. I guess some days are just not meant to be optimistic! I just posted about it! I linked your post to mine! :)
Here's another thing to make you feel good Kristin - sales tax where I live is 14%! We have GST and PST on everything we buy in Ontario (Canada). Now 9.25 doesn't seem so bad now, does it? ;-)
(Just thought I'd help :-D)
Oh my gosh, that's enormous!!! Do you have big house taxes too? Or just sales' tax? I hope you get a lot for your money. We get a lot of programs for illegal aliens. LOL
Since I've changed jobs and got away from some very pessimistic people (that's a optomistic description of them), I've found it a lot easier to look on the bright side. OTOH, your state raised it's sales tax, and my new boss says we will spend less time there auditing at the location. In the past, they have spent 2 weeks in LA or San Diego. It's expensive and to time consuming to fly everyone home, so they'd just pay for all their weekend expenses. I was thinking being paid to spend the weekend sightseeing in LA sounded fun.
Lauri, I do believe those are called TOXIC people. I said it, you didn't. : )
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