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  • Attention Californians

    From Matthew Munson@VERT/IUTOPIA to All on Tuesday, June 23, 2026 19:33:00
    Your downloadable software and internet services will become EVEN more expensive when sales tax gets added. So if you pay for GMAIL 100gb plan
    it will be 19.99 plus sales tax, your digital video games will also be
    sales tax charged too.

    I also stopped paying for Office 365 when they raised the cost to $150.
    There are ways to stop feeding the state and big tech.


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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Matthew Munson on Tuesday, June 23, 2026 22:46:46
    Re: Attention Californians
    By: Matthew Munson to All on Tue Jun 23 2026 07:33 pm

    Your downloadable software and internet services will become EVEN more expensive when sales tax gets added. So if you pay for GMAIL 100gb plan it will be 19.99 plus sales tax, your digital video games will also be sales tax charged too.

    I also stopped paying for Office 365 when they raised the cost to $150. There are ways to stop feeding the state and big tech.

    I just use Libreoffice, works great for me.


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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Matthew Munson on Wednesday, June 24, 2026 11:17:11
    Matthew Munson wrote to All <=-

    Your downloadable software and internet services will become EVEN more expensive when sales tax gets added. So if you pay for GMAIL 100gb plan
    it will be 19.99 plus sales tax, your digital video games will also be sales tax charged too.

    I also stopped paying for Office 365 when they raised the cost to $150. There are ways to stop feeding the state and big tech.

    Yeah. Move out of that taxation paradise. Like hundreds of thousands
    already have...



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  • From Utopian Galt@VERT to Gamgee on Wednesday, June 24, 2026 18:00:02
    Re: Re: Attention Californians
    By: Gamgee to Matthew Munson on Wed Jun 24 2026 11:17 am

    Yeah. Move out of that taxation paradise. Like hundreds of thousands already have...
    Some of us are tied to family, but when I get some extra coin I do aspire to move to Georgia or South Carolina.

    I am likely to do a very expensive Nintendo Switch Store game run before the tax increase.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Utopian Galt on Wednesday, June 24, 2026 20:52:31
    Utopian Galt wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: Attention Californians
    By: Gamgee to Matthew Munson on Wed Jun 24 2026 11:17 am

    Yeah. Move out of that taxation paradise. Like hundreds of thousands already have...

    Some of us are tied to family, but when I get some extra coin I do
    aspire to move to Georgia or South Carolina.

    So.... is it that you're "tied to family" really? Sounds more like it's
    a "coin" issue from what you're saying.

    I have family (in-laws) there too, but doesn't mean I'm gonna live there because of that.

    I am likely to do a very expensive Nintendo Switch Store game run
    before the tax increase.

    Do the tax increases there ever really stop? Did you mean to say
    "before the *NEXT* tax increase"? ;-)



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