...from using government power to stigmatize particular products and make our decisions for us. Cities and states that try food taxes will not enrich their citizens' health but rather neighboring jurisdictions' shopkeepers. Americans might not be able...
...alternatives to replacing the revenue given up by eliminating the manufacturing-energy tax.Advocacy groups that fought the food tax last session have already renewed their objections.Overnight Monday, the AARP retiree organization emailed all of its...
...plus a 5 percent fee for administration costs.Each state and county is different, but Richmond County has a 3 percent food tax and 7 percent nonfood tax.Shoppers cannot use more than one coupon per item.Commissary patrons are often given access...
COLUMBIA - Bluffton Market owner Jim McIntire didn't think he had to prepare for the state's lower sales tax on food.
...you complain.This is a huge rant for members of the Georgia Legislature. Vote out the ones who vote for the devious food tax, the cell phone and satellite TV tax, and the massive service tax.How is it Westboro Baptist Church, which feels...
...David L. Katz of Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center advocates vegetable subsidies. He favors the idea of a junk food tax that would use the money to lower the price of vegetables, as well as pay for anti-obesity programs. Diana Crane...
...benefit," Mr. Smith said. However, low-income retirees in his district would probably benefit more from slashed food taxes, he said. A promoter of the Savannah Lake Villages retirement community in McCormick said dropping the income tax would...
...House are not interested in raising taxes," said Harrell, R-Charleston. "While we do like the reduction of the food tax and would be willing to support that, we are not interested in raising taxes." The grocery sales tax initiative isn't...
...the tax-writing Ways & Means Committee. The proposal is a departure for Democrats who helped dismantle the statewide food tax under former Gov. Zell Miller. At the time, Democrats said people should not be taxed on items as essential as food...
...apparently stems from some pettiness on Hodges' part. The food tax cut was not his bill. It was a GOP bill. In fact, the...to implement the change. Compare how Hodges handled the food tax cut bill which he doesn't like with how he managed one...
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