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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (12561)	1/30/2004 1:26:05 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

Forbes Magazine Get Ready For the Twinkie Tax Thursday January 29, 6:34 pm ET By Mark Tatge Apparently unsatiated by their huge claims on booze and cigarettes, the tax police are planning a major snack attack. Potato chips, cookies, sodas, candy--a $30 billion-a-year business--are being targeted by more than a dozen revenue-starved states under the misguided impression that by charging a few extra cents per can or bag they can trim their budget deficits and encourage the rest of us to slim down. Fat chance. Among the assaults: ADVERTISEMENT NEW YORK plans a new sales tax (one-quarter of 1%) on sweets and snacks, on top of a bill to ban the sale of junk food from vending machines in public schools. The resulting $50 million a year would fund programs to fight childhood obesity. WASHINGTON State's SB 5928 would lift the sales-tax exemption for candy, aiming to raise $40 million a year. Legislators in ARKANSAS defeated a bill to add a 1% sales tax on junk food, which would have added up to $14 million a year to fund K-12 education, but it's far from dead. VERMONT'slawmakers tried to raise $5 million for education by adding a 6% sales tax to snack foods. The bill died, but legislators are talking about reviving the idea of a snack tax. A plan in NEBRASKA to extend the state's 5.5% sales tax to snack foods and baked goods flamed out last year, but supporters hope to bring it back as a way to raise an extra $5 million

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (12561)	1/30/2004 1:42:04 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

"Oh would you folks quit whining about the cold?" Lol, before I moved up north for a few years I always wondered why people even bothered watching weather reports, as it seemed to me the weather was always pretty much the same. Took one winter to disabuse me of that notion.