News preview last night: "Tomorrow Illinois residents will be paying more for beer, pop, and candy!"
My brain: "WTH?!"
My mouth, frantically: "BF, is there a new tax on candy tomorrow? Google it!"
Search results: http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=317689&src=109
Bf's mouth, laughing: "Guess you won't be eating so much candy!"
It's called a "snack tax." I understand what Illinois lawmakers are getting at- kids in Illinois are fat. (Illinois is ranked #10). So take the vending machines out of schools! But I'm a 26 year old, college-educated professional. If I want to eat a Milky Way, drink a Gatorade (yes, Gatorade falls under the new tax... but a Starbucks frappaccino does not), and afterwards, shampoo my hair (oh yes, shampoo is overtaxed under the "clean tax"... hopefully this will not deter people from using shampoo... nasty), that's my God-given right. It's not cigarettes or porn or copious amounts of alcohol (I know that alcohol is severely taxed, it has been for years). What's the big deal?
Basically the deal aims at getting Illinois out of the debt Blago put us in. It'll earn the government an additional $377 million in revenue. But it sucks. I'll tell you this much- the next time I go up to Wisconsin, I'm coming back with a trunk full of candy, Diet Coke, and Gatorade. I'd rather spend the extra money in my gas tank than be a victim of the "snack tax."
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