Really surprised to hear they have sales tax on ALL food, not just packaged stuff or restaurant food! Not sure what the rationale is for that.
Push to eliminate sales tax on food and groceries in Missouri runs into resistance
Submitted 3 weeks ago by NomNom@feddit.uk to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
IronBird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
anything but taxing the rich
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Didn’t you know? Billionaires eat hundreds of millions of steaks a year!
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Its a republican majority in Missouri.
That’s why.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In the EU and the UK all food has sales tax. It’s around 20 percent for “luxury” food and around 5 percent for necessary food like bread and milk (some countries have more levels, like France, which has 20, 10, 5 and 2.5).
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
you must live in Florida.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Far from it dude! I’m in Canada.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In EU you have VAT on everything, so it’s not that different. Usually food products gave reduced rate tho
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The only good thing about living here is our rent and gas prices are still relatively lower than average.
Ryoae@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
State Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, an Arnold Republican, said the bill is an attempt to increase affordability for Missourians as prices rise.
Read that over and over again, Missourians.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
You may have misread something here, Coleman is in favour of the bill, not against.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
What is the issue?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Read it again! ~(jk)~
thesmokingman@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yeah fuck the bill’s sponsor and her desire to reduce costs for a family of four by $50 every month
State Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, an Arnold Republican, said the bill is an attempt to increase affordability for Missourians as prices rise.
“Missourians are paying more and more for necessities,” Coleman said. “Most of us agree fundamentally that essential services should not be funded on the backs of the poor.”
Coleman said a family of four would save $54 per month with the removal of grocery sales tax.
Kjell@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s nice to try to reduce the cost for the citizens but with less tax money some other tax needs to be increased or some service will have to save money.
Dimmitt also said that because the bulk of property taxes go to schools and other jurisdictions, local governments rely on sales taxes to fund police and fire departments, road repairs, trash and recycling, among many other services.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
The state of misery always lives up to its name.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Tax cuts only benefit corporations. They already price their goods at the maximum that consumers will (read: are able to) pay. Guess what happens if consumers can suddenly pay 10% more because they don’t have to pay 10% tax?
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
well you no longer have to do the off-label calculation
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No. There is nuance to the tax cut and tax levy argument. Circumstances matter. Cutting taxes on groceries would immediately lower food prices for everyone, the poor included.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So the opposite must be true too right? When taxes go way up companies drop their prices to compensate because they only charge what consumers can pay. Oh wait, they didn’t drop their prices at all, did they.
What complete nonsense.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Regressive taxes are the name of the game. Tax the poors and get them pay for the government.
That is all tariffs are as well. A regressive tax that the poor pay. They had been trying to ram through a flat tax which would do the same thing for years and now they are doing it underhandedly with tariffs.
That is why the Republicans aren’t throwing a fit, because it is secretly exactly what they have always wanted.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
$54 a month isn’t exactly a lot. I’d question the sense of that tax altogether, because it induces processing and collection costs
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I didn’t realize there were states where groceries were taxed.
Shirasho@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
I thought states that taxes groceries were the norm. If this is not true I will be even madder.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I live in ohio. Food not taxed, drinks are.
In OHIO.
Yeah, Ohio has its shit together more than your state.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
kiplinger.com/…/states-that-still-tax-groceries
Most don’t.
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’ve lived in Missouri my whole life and never really grocery shop when I go out of state. You telling me other states just pay the sticker price?
fartographer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bad news for ya. Texas checking in with tax-free food
Soulphite@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Some states probably really really want to tax your tax if they could.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
we still have grocery tax in my state. I think at the least they should not allow tax on fresh foods and I would include bags of beans and grains as fresh.
chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are states where they aren’t?!
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Connecticut has sales tax on most things but not groceries except for certain things like energy drinks and sodas.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
i mean they have to compensate by having next to no corporate or income tax, those are usually the POORER states too.