groceries sales tax is only 2.5%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You want to get rid of your real estate and income tax? How will you fund FCPS’ $3 billion annual budget?

Has someone proposed this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You want to get rid of your real estate and income tax? How will you fund FCPS’ $3 billion annual budget?

Has someone proposed this?

OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You want to get rid of your real estate and income tax? How will you fund FCPS’ $3 billion annual budget?

Has someone proposed this?

OP

Someone with actual authority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:groceries sales tax is only 2.5% so you won't even noticed it after its repealed by Youngkin, you will only noticed it if you're poor and pay in cash or if you look at the bill, If you spend $100 dollars on groceries it will only save you $2.50.... If they want to repeal a tax they should start with the SALES TAX AND THE RESTATE TAX AND the INCOME TAX. Just removing the Groceries tax is bs....

Spoken like someone who’s never had to take a twenty dollar bill into a grocery store for their weekly shop, then stress about doing the head math so you don’t have the shame of putting something back at the till.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:groceries sales tax is only 2.5% so you won't even noticed it after its repealed by Youngkin, you will only noticed it if you're poor and pay in cash or if you look at the bill, If you spend $100 dollars on groceries it will only save you $2.50.... If they want to repeal a tax they should start with the SALES TAX AND THE RESTATE TAX AND the INCOME TAX. Just removing the Groceries tax is bs....

Spoken like someone who’s never had to take a twenty dollar bill into a grocery store for their weekly shop, then stress about doing the head math so you don’t have the shame of putting something back at the till.

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You did?
wow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The grocery tax is ridiculous. That said, how is Youngkin going to replace the revenue? Is his plan the 80s style trickle down economics? Virginia is already a top state for businesses. Youngkin will probably make it less attractive since he wants extreme right wing policies here.

If it’s replaced with a progressive tax, then I fully support it. But I can envision an increase in the regular sales tax as a replacement. Then he can claim he cut taxes without actually doing anything.

[Anonymous]

So no one knows how he plans to make up the lost revenues?

[Anonymous]

Northam proposed cutting the grocery tax in his final budget delivered to the General Assembly so I'd say this is a bipartisan proposal. This article talks about how we have a budget surplus so it would be giving a little back to citizens. I'm all for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/14/northam-grocery-tax-cuts-budget/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northam proposed cutting the grocery tax in his final budget delivered to the General Assembly so I'd say this is a bipartisan proposal. This article talks about how we have a budget surplus so it would be giving a little back to citizens. I'm all for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/14/northam-grocery-tax-cuts-budget/

Bipartisan? Northam proposed this after Youngkin won the election, and after Youngkin had been talking for months about getting rid of the grocery tax

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:groceries sales tax is only 2.5% so you won't even noticed it after its repealed by Youngkin, you will only noticed it if you're poor and pay in cash or if you look at the bill, If you spend $100 dollars on groceries it will only save you $2.50.... If they want to repeal a tax they should start with the SALES TAX AND THE RESTATE TAX AND the INCOME TAX. Just removing the Groceries tax is bs....

Only a liberal elitist would think that $2.50 is not important to people. The grocery sales tax is among the most regressive taxes because everyone pays it whether one person is buying $100 of groceries to feed a family of four for a month or one person is buying $100 worth of items for a chacuterie board.

$2.50 can buy three cans of soup on sale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So no one knows how he plans to make up the lost revenues?

I hope it is a tax on N-95 masks. The weird Arlington parents group has sucked up all the N-95 masks in the area "out of an abundance of caution" and none are available for my 85 year old mother who has to leave her house once a week for physical therapy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The grocery tax is ridiculous. That said, how is Youngkin going to replace the revenue? Is his plan the 80s style trickle down economics? Virginia is already a top state for businesses. Youngkin will probably make it less attractive since he wants extreme right wing policies here.

DC doesn’t have a grocery tax. We’re doing fine - universal pre-k, full paid leave, UBI pilot for new moms, and free Covid tests to all residents. But I suppose we’re too right wing for you?

Your state governor sounds great -- oh wait -- these are handouts to the fiefdom from the rest of the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you spend just $500 per month on groceries, that's $1500 per year. Maybe that's nothing to you, but that's meaningful for many people. OP: you must be quite privileged.

It is $150 a year. Not $1,500.

Do you also want our schools to teach about the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you spend just $500 per month on groceries, that's $1500 per year. Maybe that's nothing to you, but that's meaningful for many people. OP: you must be quite privileged.

It is $150 a year. Not $1,500.

Do you also want our schools to teach about the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass?

I would love to learn what they debated..

[Anonymous]

Liberal clueless elitist. I bet you think everyone can just telework or take time off and childcare isn’t an issue so schools should be closed. Grocery taxes are regressive, but I’m sure you want to reallow state income deductions with no cap federally as well.