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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The time you save using the drive-through could end up costing you more.
The West Virginia Department of Transportation is floating the idea of charging an additional tax on food purchased at drive-throughs. The idea was discussed Monday at a meeting of state legislators.
It would be an extra 5 percent, added to the 6 percent customers already pay.
Drive-Through Tax Proposed for Road Money (http://www.wsaz.com/charleston/headlines/102923614.html - broken link)
I don't eat at fast food but do enjoy going to dinner. That seems a little high and do they think it will make the overweight people stop going to McDonalds? They keep raising the taxes on cigarettes and I haven't quit yet .
Many towns already have the $0.25 gratuity added to provide funds for the local tourism departments.
These funds pay for office space, benefit packages and vehicles for political hacks who are bought out to 'bring in the election for the candidate of the party.
I've been waiting for this venue to go 'supersize...nothing like our scam department of transportation to see a gift horse and kill it with kindness...
Do you think the same tax aught to affect banks? Are there any drive -thru banks where people spend just as much time sitting there
with engines idling as they use the ATM's as those drivers who sit with idling engines as they wait for their "fast food"?
And as for Kevinm ^(above), as long as you believe that everyone should be cooking at home, I certainly hope that you are doing the
right thing and giving your own wife or mother (whoever does the cooking), their extra 5 or 6% in the form of a tip or other equivalent gratuity.
You also need to realize that by patronizing the fast-food industry, you are supporting someone in your community who needs a job and if
everyone else used your fouled logic, there'd be a helluva lot more West Virginians standing in the ever growing, state unemployment line.
They had this on the news and apparently the tax is only going to be charged if you go through the drive through. If you walk in and get your food you will not be charged. I guess that seems appropriate, it will be a choice if you want to pay it or not.
It's just another tax and they will use it for what they want. They are doing it because thye know people will pay it. The politicians need to worry more about how they spend then how they suck more money from their own neighbors.
For what it's worth I "might" eat fast food 6 times a year if that and am on the thin side of the scale.
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They are going to get the new tax from some where.
If they pass the new tax then you will pay the state .05
on every dollar spent for in car privilege.
Chew slower on the food, and make it last longer in your mouth,
so you may think you got more for your money.
AWH SO ... CHOP CHOP ... ENJOY .
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