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Like flour tortillas? I thnk I heard the idea is to get folks to not buy unhealthy foods?
You know if a tax is passed re these items it will not stop certain groups from purchasing what they have in their regular diet.
And what a hassel for stores to computerize this plan...extra cost.
And the cereal companies are not gonna like it..
Like flour tortillas? I thnk I heard the idea is to get folks to not buy unhealthy foods?
You know if a tax is passed re these items it will not stop certain groups from purchasing what they have in their regular diet.
And what a hassel for stores to computerize this plan...extra cost.
And the cereal companies are not gonna like it..
HW
To me, this whole thing is gotten out of hand. Ok, today, we went to a neighborhood breakfast we have every month; we had the buffet which consisted of eggs, waffles, fruit, meats and biscuits and gravy. Are they going to start taxing just the gravy before long? What about the cereals with sugar and who will decide what is good for us and not good. Nanny states has got to stop!!!!
They already tax prepared foods and restaurant visits, so your buffet analogy's moot.
High Fructose Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Aspartame, and Phosphoric Acid are not food, in my opinion. Want to drink that stuff? Go right ahead, but don't claim that it's necessary for your family's survival, or that it shouldn't be taxed on that basis.
I think all food should be taxed (simpler tax structure that way), but especially stuff that masquerades as food.
They already tax prepared foods and restaurant visits, so your buffet analogy's moot.
High Fructose Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Aspartame, and Phosphoric Acid are not food, in my opinion. Want to drink that stuff? Go right ahead, but don't claim that it's necessary for your family's survival, or that it shouldn't be taxed on that basis.
I think all food should be taxed (simpler tax structure that way), but especially stuff that masquerades as food.
that was meant in jest for heaven's sake. Of course even if prepared food wasn't taxed they are not going to say,we will tax gravy but not potatoes or we will tax the piece of bacon but not the eggs. I was just pointing out this whole thing is getting out of hand in my opinion.. And no, all food should not be taxed. One of the few positive things Richardson did for the state of NM was remove the food tax.
One of the few positive things Richardson did for the state of NM was remove the food tax.
NIta
With a budget shortfall, how was that positive, exactly?
I haven't seen any solid numbers, but we can infer that the state government has $125M less to work with, because of the removed food tax.
Our state government is at last count about $650M in the hole.
Our government is indeed too big (that's a big negative for Richardson, since his executive-level appointments are definitely playing their part in making that hole as big as it is), but as long as we have a government in place, taxes will be required to fund it.
I think too many people would like to declare just about everything exempt from taxation to the point where our government has zero funding whatsoever. Food's no more sacred to me than income, property, or gross receipts.
They already tax prepared foods and restaurant visits, so your buffet analogy's moot.
High Fructose Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Aspartame, and Phosphoric Acid are not food, in my opinion. Want to drink that stuff? Go right ahead, but don't claim that it's necessary for your family's survival, or that it shouldn't be taxed on that basis.
I think all food should be taxed (simpler tax structure that way), but especially stuff that masquerades as food.
Are they still letting the food stamp crowd use food stamps to buy it? The government can't say cokes are food on one hand for one group and then just for the taxpayers insist it's not food.
Are they still letting the food stamp crowd use food stamps to buy it? The government can't say cokes are food on one hand for one group and then just for the taxpayers insist it's not food.
Excellent point.. who do we petition to get them to stop making cokes food-stamp-eligible? Cokes should be a luxury, not a basic human right guaranteed by the government.
Cokes (and all other soda pops), including the diet versions, should be banned - period! Never should have been approved for sale in the first place.
In the grand hierarchy, I'd have to put soda below Tobacco and Alcohol, and if the powers that be have that much trouble getting rid of those, it'd be just about impossible to ban such things.
this city and state are really starting to bug me, im tired of all these stupid laws, is Martin Chavez running this state?
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