I responded to your comment before reading Mr. McGough's response to your original comment about missrepresenting facts.  I think that he summed it up when he said that there might be some "reading comprehension issues", and that wasn't his fault!  You should make sure you understand what you are reading before you try to tell the author he is misreporting or misrepresenting.

Education is wonderful!

I believe the article said "…Increasings withholdings 10%".  You just responded to your own comment!  If your withholdings are already 6%, a 10% increase now means that your withholdings are 6.6%!  The article was not misrepresented….YOU misread it!  Mr. McGough was saying that the state increased our current withholdings by 10%  (i.e., 10% increase of 6% equals 6.6%).

Mr. McGough does not need to be more responsible in reporting numbers, some readers simply need to be more educated (or simply have a better understanding of both English and math).

Use a calculator or ask someone who knows math!  Better yet, re-read the title of the article and you might figure out that you simply did not understand the English!

California just jacked up it’s withholding rates to force people to overpay their taxes, because the State decided it needs……

Yes you must act on your feelings – minimize the amount of withholding the state takes from your paycheck.  Embrace the insignificance of the Hollywood crowd, for they have distracted you from what is truely important.  Seek out your elected officials and throw them from the high places and replace them with persons of virtue: those that honor the rule of law and the Constitution.  Do this in the name of common sense.  For the example you set shall lead this nation to failure or back to the great Republic that it was destined to be.

“Calif. boosts income tax collection 10 percent – cbs13.com”

“State of California starts witholding 10% of millions of workers. . .”

At first glance, the headlines seem to imply what I was being told.   I had to read pretty far in to most of them before I found what was actually being increased  by 10%.

I wanted to get some perspective on this, and that actually required me to look up the witholding tables on the state's website and do the math myself.   Not a single article I read seemed to have that information.

The reason I posted it on yours was that it turned out to be really difficult to post anything on the other sites, and I found your article to be more honest and straight forward then most.

If we're going to combat the constant creep of government into our lives, we have to do it with a clear head, and with a good comprehension of exactly what is being done to us.

We are deeply distressed by the fact that the government would raise taxes and then try to deliberately disguise it as something else for the sake of politically covering their asses.   We just have to be careful, I'd hate to lose this political argument when someone is smart enough to accuse us of fighting dishonesty with hyperbole.

There may be some reading comprehension issues … but that's not my fault.