For years we citizens have gone along with politicians as they’ve used the tax code for social engineering projects.
Rob, this has been going on since the founding of our country. I’m not endorsing sin taxes, I’m just pointing out that, like property taxes, it may be bad policy but it is not a recent invention.
kbiel - 01:05pm on 05/01/2008
This one hangs on that edge of a slippery slope. What you’re looking at is a tax on ground beef and chicken. If this flies I doubt it would be long before this manifests in to taxes on food at all restaurants, then shortly after to tax on food items at the grocery store.
Need to keep an eye on this one.
Spartacus - 05:05pm on 05/01/2008
When you live near the Democratic People’s Republic of New Jersey, as I do, and listen to the daily diktats of Chairman Corzine, nothing coming from that state would surprise you.
After all, the “Garden State”, if Corzine has his way, will become the first in the nation to do away with it’s Department of Agriculture. Go figure.
pparets - 05:05pm on 05/01/2008
So they have bled all the can from the alchol and tobacco ( put thousands of farmers out of business) industry so they start on food. Not just fast food, it will spread to all food. We have school systems almost totally funded by tobacco taxes and now the money is going away. Lottery was supposed to make it up. That didn’t work so on to some other tax on someone else. Have they ever though of ‘cutting’ spending. Na, that would make too much sense. Got to have them multi-million dollar building for a failed education system.
Scrapiron - 07:05pm on 05/01/2008
It’s just another step toward the goal of having the population dependent on government “people chow” for their sustenance.
Rob, this has been going on since the founding of our country. I’m not endorsing sin taxes, I’m just pointing out that, like property taxes, it may be bad policy but it is not a recent invention.
This one hangs on that edge of a slippery slope. What you’re looking at is a tax on ground beef and chicken. If this flies I doubt it would be long before this manifests in to taxes on food at all restaurants, then shortly after to tax on food items at the grocery store.
Need to keep an eye on this one.
When you live near the Democratic People’s Republic of New Jersey, as I do, and listen to the daily diktats of Chairman Corzine, nothing coming from that state would surprise you.
After all, the “Garden State”, if Corzine has his way, will become the first in the nation to do away with it’s Department of Agriculture. Go figure.
So they have bled all the can from the alchol and tobacco ( put thousands of farmers out of business) industry so they start on food. Not just fast food, it will spread to all food. We have school systems almost totally funded by tobacco taxes and now the money is going away. Lottery was supposed to make it up. That didn’t work so on to some other tax on someone else. Have they ever though of ‘cutting’ spending. Na, that would make too much sense. Got to have them multi-million dollar building for a failed education system.
It’s just another step toward the goal of having the population dependent on government “people chow” for their sustenance.