Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model

[sirs]

The jealously & envy are nearly tangible

[Kramer]

Mikey how much do you pay in taxes? Total $ and Total % of income. That would be combine income, vehicle registration, sales, property, gas, capital gains and other taxes like cell phone, cable TV, utility, toll bridges, CRT's, fees to enter parks, parking fees, and all other nuisance taxes that nickle and dime you to death.

[sirs]

Don't forget to ask him how many cars the family has, if he's taken any vacations, how many TV's, cell phones, and Electronic devices, such as laptops & playstations

[BT]

If you take a guy at the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder, he's just getting by, no luxuries, buys nothing but basics, and then he gets hit by the increase in sales tax, he's gotta start making choices between things he can buy and things he can do without.

So? Why should that qualify them for special treatment?
And wtf is so onerous about making choices and setting priorities.

[Kramer]

Don't forget to ask him how many cars the family has, if he's taken any vacations, how many TV's, cell phones, and Electronic devices, such as laptops & playstations

it's looking like he does not want to answer. Either he's a moocher or one of the filthy swine rich that hide from paying taxes.

[Plane]

<<If water and basic food is exempt from Sales tax . . . >>

Basic food is not exempt from sales tax, at least not around here.  Water's still free, though.  But some fucking Conservative idiots have sold our future supply to the U.S.A.

Your comment is basically on the same lines as "If my aunt had balls . . . "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States

In Georgia the sales tax is less for grocerys .

I would like to meet your aunt someday.

As of July 2008, total sales tax rates in Georgia are 3% for groceries and 7% for other items in the vast majority of its 159 counties. A few counties charge only 2% local tax (6% total on non-grocery items), and four partially exempt groceries from the local tax by charging 2% on food, and 3% (7% total) on other items. Fulton and DeKalb counties charge 1% for MARTA, and adjacent metro Atlanta counties may do so by referendum if they so choose. For the portions of Fulton and DeKalb within the city of Atlanta, the total is at 8% (4% on groceries) due to the MOST.[49]

Similar to Florida and certain other states, Georgia has two sales tax holidays per year. One is for back-to-school sales the first weekend in August, but sometimes starting at the end of July. A second usually occurs in October, for energy-efficient home appliances with the Energy Star certification.

[Plane]

<<how much are they already paying?>>

Who really knows?  They hide their wealth in off-shore trusts, phony expense accounts and various tax dodges.   I'd guess the official maximum tax rate in Canada would be somewhere between 45 and 50%.  (It used to be 53% but that was a long time ago.)  But the official rate is virtually meaningless with these weasels.  It's basically whatever their accountants can make it to be.

This is less of a problem with sales taxes.

[Plane]

Oh no....

Not the pig farmers!

ATLANTA — For years, state legislators have talked about taking a hard look at the 100-plus sales tax exemptions that dot Georgia's tax code, giving various groups a free pass on taxes when they buy equipment, fuel, food and a multitude of other things.

A comprehensive study may be in the offing during the next year. But in this difficult budget climate, it's much more likely that the state Legislature will take an easier route to reform.

Nine sales tax exemptions are up for renewal this year, meaning that they'll go away unless the Legislature votes to keep them. The exemptions benefit food banks, volunteer health clinics, military contractors, back-to-school shoppers, mass transit systems and pig farmers, among others.

The Legislature is poised to let all or most of those nine exemptions die.

"Frankly, because we can't afford them," said state Rep. Larry O'Neal, who chairs the House of Representatives tax-code writing legislative committee.

Those entities would end up paying more in taxes. For the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank in Macon, for example, it would mean another $41,000 or so in costs, director Ronald Raleigh said.

Read the complete story at macon.com



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