What's the deal with the "new" tax on "some" food. (Albuquerque: house, taxes)
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I did not know that sodas were able to be purchased with food stamps... that makes me really angry. I would be against bottled water too... tap water is fine.
WTH!!
I don't know for sure as everything changes, but you diidn't used to be able to purchase soda or candy..Again, things do change..
Correlation does not imply causation. In New Jersey's case, two of the destination states (Pennsylvania and New York) correlate roughly toward longer commutes from the big city. (Hard to believe, but there are multitudes of people who commute that far, just to get that bigger house). It could be argued then that congestion and housing prices were a bigger or as big a driver.
New Mexicans have no such luxury. With the exception of Las Cruces, no densely populated part of N.M. has the realistic option of commuting in from out of state by car, and certainly no incentive.
10 million Mexicans can't be wrong...
An interesting wikipedia article says that N.M. ranks 6th nationwide already for tax revenue as % of personal income. 8.26%. I had no idea.
The lowest? Those crazy N.H. liberals, taxing at a lowly rate of 3.87%.
The highest? Those austere Alaska conservatives, taxing at a whopping 11.67%.
Weird huh? Oil & gas has a lot to do with these numbers. Still, it shows just how fat dumb and happy governments can get with a petroleum gravy train.
Would you please site your source for your New Jersey comments? I have found some evidence of people moving to penn and ny, but most articles and studies I've read listed Florida as the most popular destination for these Ex-New Jersey residents (at least the rich ones who were most effected by the high income taxes among other luxory property taxes).
Would you please site your source for your New Jersey comments? I have found some evidence of people moving to penn and ny, but most articles and studies I've read listed Florida as the most popular destination for these Ex-New Jersey residents (at least the rich ones who were most effected by the high income taxes among other luxory property taxes).
If you go to page 4 in the PDF document, the list for outflow of population from New Jersey to destination state appears.
Thanks for the link. I wonder why the politicians in NJ didn't read all that information before they decided to mess with the tax structure which ended up driving the State into more debt.
The numbers in that research came from 2000-2004 I believe. I wonder if the trend continued or changed when they lost 70 billion in income from 2004-2008. I would love to see a study of the last 5 years.
I saw something in the news about the food tax bill having been tabled??? Anyone know for sure? One way or another, they are going to raise our taxes - just a question of which ones.
"A state Senate proposal to levy a tax on certain food items was unanimously rejected by a House committee Wednesday" ABQjournal.com: Albuquerque Journal
I did not see any mention of it being tabled. Nor any absolute statement that any taxes will be raised for sure.
We had a snack tax in Maine. Anything considered a snack food...chips, soda, candy, ect.
Another thing we had that helped was a bottle deposit. You paid it on soda and a few other things and when you returned the empty cans and bottles you got your deposit back. Rare to see cans and bottles alongside the roads, like you see here.
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