@ironcheftoni@Kyser_Soze True they have to get it from somewhere but that doesn’t mean you see anything much from it. The sales tax in the city I live in is 8% and TX charges 8.25%. TX doesn’t have a state income tax and my state does. Together sales and state income tax is more here than there. We live in a third world country with nothing to show for the difference, let alone that it is even so high to begin with. Oh wait. Corruption, embezzlement… we need a higher sales tax to begin with as our city officials need money for those activities. Those activities are expensive.
@ironcheftoni@Kidsandliz@Kyser_Soze
Texas’ statewide sales tax rate is 6.25%, but counties, cities, and certain other entities can add as much as 2% to that for most non-grocery-food items, and there is a higher rate allowed for a few things like hotel room nights. Gotta keep them sports palaces big and shiny, but not a penny for public hospitals or clinics in most of the state.
@werehatrack yeah and now it’s not just professional sports teams. School districts have taken out bonds to pay for can-be-seen-from-space football stadiums. Because you know high school football is the official religion in Texas
@katbyter Texas is just as complicated. If it’s restaurant food, it’s taxed. In the grocery store deli a whole rotisserie chicken is not taxed but if you get an individual meal from the deli that you can consume in the cafe it is. Food, medications and vitamins are not taxed but candy and sodas are (or Cokes as we call them even if it is that nectar from the Texas gods; Dr Pepper).
@ironcheftoni yeah we have stupid recycling rules too. Pop cans (your “Cokes”) and plastic bottles are 10¢ refundable deposit, but non-carbonated drinks like iced tea, lemonade, and flavored water in the same plastic bottle are no deposit, no return. Still can be recycled but cannot be returned for deposit so most are thrown away.
@ironcheftoni@katbyter Chicago had(emphasis on “had”) a crazy tax on beverages for about a year. They charged a rate per ounce, like you would pay for gasoline, but the stores were required to only display the pre-tax rate. So you would buy a 2 liter of Coke and it would be taxed at whatever the tax rate was, times 68 ounces. The screwy part was that it only applied to sweetened beverages, so soda water, or seltzer, like bubly or La Croix were not taxed with the sweetened beverage tax, but orange juice could be taxed(while oranges were not taxed, so you could literally bootleg the tax by making your own fresh squeezed OJ). Things like water additive Mio since it is a liquid, were taxed at the rate for the tiny bottle instead of the final prepared volume, and powdered mix like koolaid, because it was a powder, were not taxed, even the kind that already has sugar added. Chocolate milk was like the only sweetened beverage that was exempted, because it was milk. It was a whole thing, and all the people involved with the law were immediately voted out at the next election.
Some restaurants though were really clever, and started selling the correct amount of soda syrup in a sauce cup, at the tax rate for the sauce cup, and letting you have free soda water if you wanted. What you chose to do with your Coca Cola nugget dipping sauce at your table was not something they were concerned with, lol.
Just an FYI - food is not taxed in Minnesota
I just got charged sales tax as well. Meh should know better since we are both in Texas.
@mjsanko @ironcheftoni Bold of you both to assume what you’re buying is actually “food.”
We’ll take a look in the morning and if this was put in the wrong tax code we can shoot the pocket change back your way.
I’m sorry you even have a sales tax. We don’t have one in Montana.
@Kyser_Soze
Parts of Montana
Others do have some sales tax
Varies by county
@Kyser_Soze yeah, but do you have a state income tax? State property tax? The gov’mint’s gotta take their piece of the pie from somewhere, somehow.
@ironcheftoni @Kyser_Soze True they have to get it from somewhere but that doesn’t mean you see anything much from it. The sales tax in the city I live in is 8% and TX charges 8.25%. TX doesn’t have a state income tax and my state does. Together sales and state income tax is more here than there. We live in a third world country with nothing to show for the difference, let alone that it is even so high to begin with. Oh wait. Corruption, embezzlement… we need a higher sales tax to begin with as our city officials need money for those activities. Those activities are expensive.
@ironcheftoni @Kidsandliz @Kyser_Soze
Texas’ statewide sales tax rate is 6.25%, but counties, cities, and certain other entities can add as much as 2% to that for most non-grocery-food items, and there is a higher rate allowed for a few things like hotel room nights. Gotta keep them sports palaces big and shiny, but not a penny for public hospitals or clinics in most of the state.
@werehatrack yeah and now it’s not just professional sports teams. School districts have taken out bonds to pay for can-be-seen-from-space football stadiums. Because you know high school football is the official religion in Texas
Same goes for Rhode Island.
@Lidio smallest state biggest corruption.
Ditto Michigan, unless it’s prepared foods like the rotisserie chicken from Costco. Not to make it complicated or anything.
@katbyter Texas is just as complicated. If it’s restaurant food, it’s taxed. In the grocery store deli a whole rotisserie chicken is not taxed but if you get an individual meal from the deli that you can consume in the cafe it is. Food, medications and vitamins are not taxed but candy and sodas are (or Cokes as we call them even if it is that nectar from the Texas gods; Dr Pepper).
@ironcheftoni yeah we have stupid recycling rules too. Pop cans (your “Cokes”) and plastic bottles are 10¢ refundable deposit, but non-carbonated drinks like iced tea, lemonade, and flavored water in the same plastic bottle are no deposit, no return. Still can be recycled but cannot be returned for deposit so most are thrown away.
@ironcheftoni @katbyter Chicago had(emphasis on “had”) a crazy tax on beverages for about a year. They charged a rate per ounce, like you would pay for gasoline, but the stores were required to only display the pre-tax rate. So you would buy a 2 liter of Coke and it would be taxed at whatever the tax rate was, times 68 ounces. The screwy part was that it only applied to sweetened beverages, so soda water, or seltzer, like bubly or La Croix were not taxed with the sweetened beverage tax, but orange juice could be taxed(while oranges were not taxed, so you could literally bootleg the tax by making your own fresh squeezed OJ). Things like water additive Mio since it is a liquid, were taxed at the rate for the tiny bottle instead of the final prepared volume, and powdered mix like koolaid, because it was a powder, were not taxed, even the kind that already has sugar added. Chocolate milk was like the only sweetened beverage that was exempted, because it was milk. It was a whole thing, and all the people involved with the law were immediately voted out at the next election.
Some restaurants though were really clever, and started selling the correct amount of soda syrup in a sauce cup, at the tax rate for the sauce cup, and letting you have free soda water if you wanted. What you chose to do with your Coca Cola nugget dipping sauce at your table was not something they were concerned with, lol.
@ironcheftoni @katbyter @smerk85 that makes my head hurt
Also Georgia…