What the Hell???

[Sparky Shortz]

Desperate to avert layoffs to police officers, firefighters and other city workers, Phoenix City Council members today approved a 2 percent sales tax on grocery items that will generate tens of millions of dollars in new revenue for city services.

The food tax would sunset after five years.

The original budget proposal called for the elimination of 1,379 city positions, including nearly 500 layoffs to police officers and firefighters.

This is absurd...our government at work in Phoenix, Arizona :eek:

Is your city next

 

[Shadowslayer77]

My city is most likely worse off. I live in California and The Governator is going after the teachers and school district again. Which means the wife will be getting a pink slip again here soon. Hopefully it will be rescinded like the last time.

 

[HE1FiNEARTiST]

the power of vote, the city of phoenix voted for them assholes.

http://everything2.com/title/Ways+to+overthrow+a+government

 

[24788]

New World Order makes more sense every time I hear about something like this. I'm not much for theories, but it makes sense.

 

[Skyraider22]

You can never tell in Memphis it seems like which every way the wind blows as most of you know ofr don't know we damn near have a tax on everything but i have seemed to notice state tax laws are different.I know that has to suck Sparky but it almost seems the way of the land now :dunno:

 

[jod0565]

That sucks.
Here they are going to tax renters and probably will go after food next.

 

[Doc Scurlock]

Desperate to avert layoffs to police officers, firefighters and other city workers, Phoenix City Council members today approved a 2 percent sales tax on grocery items that will generate tens of millions of dollars in new revenue for city services.

The food tax would sunset after five years.

The original budget proposal called for the elimination of 1,379 city positions, including nearly 500 layoffs to police officers and firefighters.

This is absurd...our government at work in Phoenix, Arizona :eek:

Is your city next

Gone after five years? :1orglaugh I don't think so. Everyone will be used to it by then and they'll just keep it around. Welcome to the Canadian way of life, taxes, taxes and more taxes with false promises of getting rid of them but in actuality they just keep going up.

 

[YMIHERE]

Don't tax me. Don't tax thee. Tax the man behind the tree. :yinyang:

 

[bodie54]

That's too bad. That kind of tax always hurts the middle and lower classes the most. I'd imagine Phoenix really needs those fire and police employees, but why not some kind of luxury tax instead?

 

[titsrock]

I wouldn't plan on that food tax sunsetting. It will be on the books forever. Arizona has very low gas taxes. You could bump that up .10 without bankrupting everybody.

Arizona, like most of the West, has suffered through the housing crash. Those property tax revenues plummeted and they won't be coming back for years...

The revenue has to come from somewhere....:dunno:

 

[ChefChiTown]

Let's look at the bright side of this food tax...

Maybe people will stop eating so much and lose some weight. We have the fattest country in the world, so that wouldn't be all that bad of a thing. Plus, taxing food might make people smarten up and realize how much money they are absolutely wasting on grocery items.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Is your city next

No, because my city isn't 50%+ illegal aliens...yet.

It doesn't surprise me at all. I have friends in Maracopa County and it's an utter disaster down there...just terrible. You couldn't pay enough to live there with all the illegals, sorry. I understand you gotta live with the anarchy down there Sparky, but you know, it comes with the territory. :wave2:

 

[meesterperfect]

That's too bad. That kind of tax always hurts the middle and lower classes the most. I'd imagine Phoenix really needs those fire and police employees, but why not some kind of luxury tax instead?

i gotta diisagree. one reason is they probably wouldnt make enough with a luxury tax to do what they want to do.
also if you buy something you pay a sales tax already, its not right to tax again because someone calls it a luxury.
also fuck it, everybody uses the city service, everybody buys food let everybody pay (except for the 25% of the population who is on food stamps, they dont have to pay nothin).
which might be why they need this tax in the first place.

 

[D-rock]

I don't agree on anything that taxes an essential element that's needed to directly sustain life. That's almost as bad as creating an air tax so people are allowed to breathe.

Also, didn't a long time ago the federal and state governments' everywhere basically promise not to ever put taxes on things like that?

 

[ThatRedWing]

Also, didn't a long time ago the federal and state governments' everywhere basically promise not to ever put taxes on things like that?

And there you go. Just sayin'.:wave2:

 

[Facetious]

My city is most likely worse off. I live in California and The Governator is going after the teachers and school district again.

He should be going after the auxiliary, all fraudulent, "california air resources board'' to free up $759 million (2010 budget) of a complete waste of Calif. tax payer dollars, keep those fine teachers like your wife and hire some more ! :hatsoff:

I despise those arrogant a-holes at "CARB", with their nifty acronym who actually believe that they actually have a hand in the production of the air we breathe ! All you have to do is goog "Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether + California well water contamination" to see that they, "CARB" that is, have caused the single greatest ecological disaster in the state's history.
Today CARB is using the testimony of fraudulent so called doctorate to force every diesel truck and buss off of the road unless they....
Read More if you dare.

Just think about how many teachers $759 million could buy !

 

[YMIHERE]

I don't agree on anything that taxes an essential element that's needed to directly sustain life. That's almost as bad as creating an air tax so people are allowed to breathe.

Also, didn't a long time ago the federal and state governments' everywhere basically promise not to ever put taxes on things like that?

I agree that food should not be taxed, except for restaurants etc. The only thing that keep the government from taxing food is a sense of decency. But political pressure not to tax income results in the path of less resistance by taxing consumption. Here's a break down on what states tax food.

 

[Facetious]

He should be going after the auxiliary, all fraudulent, "california air resources board'' to free up $759 million (2010 budget) of a complete waste of Calif. tax payer dollars, keep those fine teachers like your wife and hire some more ! :hatsoff:

I despise those arrogant a-holes at "CARB", with their nifty acronym who actually believe that they actually have a hand in the production of the air we breathe ! All you have to do is goog "Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether + California well water contamination" to see that they, "CARB" that is, have caused the single greatest ecological disaster in the state's history.
Today CARB is using the testimony of fraudulent so called doctorate to force every diesel truck and buss off of the road unless they....
Read More if you dare.

Just think about how many teachers $759 million could buy !

The revenue has to come from somewhere....:dunno:

Yea, it's surely ain't gonna be out of your free personal government entitlement cheque !

It's always easy to spend somebody else's money, I gotcha :hatsoff:

 

[CunningStunts]

It always amazes me that when a person is broke, they have to cut back on expenses... but when the government is broke, they just raise taxes. Where does it end??

 

[Petra]

What they should do is put the 2% tax on the processed shit that is sold in the stores. Nobody NEEDS chips, cookies, or tv dinners. Arizona gets the money they need and maybe if folks focused on eating whole foods and veggies they'll get healthier in general. That's a win win situation.