Apparently someone in town was holding an "estate sale" and Ms. Levison wants the city to get its fair share of sales tax revenue from this sale. She "had an occasion to stop by" this sale, said she didn't buy any of the $500+ items, and has now turned snitch on the people holding it. I'm sure it will greatly help in the grieving process.
She said she "noticed they were not collecting taxes for the City of Longmont". She's either clairvoyant or actually asked them, but she didn't elude to that in her comments. How does she know they weren't collecting sales tax for Longmont or the State of Colorado? That's right, she doesn't. Don't you love those kind of people who show up at places (usually uninvited as anyone who knows them would just assume not invite them to anything) and start throwing their weight and opinion around? In this case a city councilmember making assumptions (correct or not) about a possibly criminal activity, in her opinion.
She didn't say she didn't buy anything. So if she did, was she a known accessory to tax evasion? We'll leave that alone, for now...
Here's the video
Once again, with some people their instincts and principles just come natural in social settings - in this case a nosey, overtaxing nanny-state type. It's not enough that they want to bring back the "Death Tax" ("Estate tax" is just too nice) and tax you your whole life and into the afterlife spreading their misery to those you leave behind. But tax them again when they try to sell your stuff, probably just to keep the house you lived in and paid a mortgage on for years.
But that's not all! She also wants to find out if maybe the state could go after these people, she'd "hate to think that we might have lost several hundred dollars worth of tax income that day". She ended with "we need every dime we can get these days". First off, "we" being the government, is supposed to be us, the people. It's amazing how quickly elected officials forget that and find as many ways as possible to siphon off money from citizens.
Second, if this city didn't squander money away so frivolously in the last 18 months (about the same time as this weak majority has been on council - no, precisely the time this weak majority has been in charge) this wouldn't be so much of an issue. It was Ms. Levison in particular who led the charge with last minute adjustments to the recent budget, things dreamed up on the fly with no public notice.
You must know where this is leading, get ready for....
GARAGE SALES TAX.
...and here's your future garage sale monitor and elected busybody, Sarah Levison, At-Large Longmont City Councilmember.
4 comments:
Wow, talk about your greedy SP Council member scratching for something to tax. Before the Boulder wantabee’s anti growth policy was applied to the Union Reservoir Annexation project; money, new jobs and prosperity would have been circulating in Longmont’s economy the past two years. That money instead is sucked out of local circulation by the Bloc and redistributed to pay the anti economic growth Bloc’s Denver lawyers to stop commerce. Thanks for this informative article and the referenced video. Both together should be a warning to Longmont’s elected officials sponsoring the Bloc’s ludicrous cases against Firestone, that were thrown out of court, aren’t the only things that can be "thrown out" as enough Longmont voters get fed up with the Bloc’s never-ending, and taxing, stop commerce and economic growth schemes .
Isn't this the same councilmember who fee'd to death the kids dirt bike track near union reservoir?
I'm aware she's ice skate friendly, guess that's why she had no qualms about throwing thousands at the ice rink. Guess it's good to be on her good side, so she'll slip you some of the taxpayers $
Guess she didn't get what she wanted at the estate sale? Or was it because she didn't like the person holding it. She and Karen Benker seem to get saucer eyes if anyone else in this community is making money.
What was the new city attorney doing after she said this? Isn't he supposed to give advice on what they can and can't do?
I guess she forgot the items were already taxed several dozen times. Heck a loaf of bread is taxed 20-odd times by the time the citizen buys it at the grocery store. And to think, they "suggested" they take two days off unpaid to show their support of the employees who have to take furlough days.
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