groceries sales tax is only 2.5%

[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?

Roughly the cost for two generic, monthly medications.

[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.

I don’t know about other departments etc. but FCPS wastes money and a little cut might mean fewer dollars on bull.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most states don’t impose a sales tax on regular groceries.

+1

I have no issue with this.

- Trumpkin hater

[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.

HAHAHAHA! Check your numbers again.

This definitely shows the intelligence level of Youngkin supporters.

[Anonymous]

The issue isn't the grocery tax itself so much as how they will make up for the lost revenue, much of which goes to localities. This is just like Gilmore's attempt to repeal the car tax. The legislation he got passed would have phased it out over five years, but midway through the phase out the legislature froze it because they couldn't cover the shortfall to the general fund. The end result is that we still have a car tax with only limited relief, but Richmond has a whole set of new obligations to transfer funding to localities to make up for the loss of revenue. The grocery tax would be no different unless Youngkin comes up with a proposal for raising other taxes to make up the lost revenue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yeah - and we pay federal tax and have no representation in Congress. Go back to 11th grade government class.

[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....

Your complaint about this approach is that while it applies to everyone, the people most meaningfully impacted by it are poor people?

That's what you think is *wrong*?

Good Lord.

[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.

HAHAHAHA! Check your numbers again.

This definitely shows the intelligence level of Youngkin supporters.

Or math education under Democratic leadership. How does the percentage make you feel?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The issue isn't the grocery tax itself so much as how they will make up for the lost revenue, much of which goes to localities. This is just like Gilmore's attempt to repeal the car tax. The legislation he got passed would have phased it out over five years, but midway through the phase out the legislature froze it because they couldn't cover the shortfall to the general fund. The end result is that we still have a car tax with only limited relief, but Richmond has a whole set of new obligations to transfer funding to localities to make up for the loss of revenue. The grocery tax would be no different unless Youngkin comes up with a proposal for raising other taxes to make up the lost revenue.

Or spend less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yeah - and we pay federal tax and have no representation in Congress. Go back to 11th grade government class.

No need -- just twisting the knife in someone who is so stupid that they pay federal tax and have no representation in Congress. Yet an authority on Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Only 13 states still tax groceries, and 4 of them provide a rebate of some sort to low income people. Virginia is in fine company with WV, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, among others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The issue isn't the grocery tax itself so much as how they will make up for the lost revenue, much of which goes to localities. This is just like Gilmore's attempt to repeal the car tax. The legislation he got passed would have phased it out over five years, but midway through the phase out the legislature froze it because they couldn't cover the shortfall to the general fund. The end result is that we still have a car tax with only limited relief, but Richmond has a whole set of new obligations to transfer funding to localities to make up for the loss of revenue. The grocery tax would be no different unless Youngkin comes up with a proposal for raising other taxes to make up the lost revenue.

Or spend less.

Again, see what happened with the car tax. Even Republicans in Virginia are not so big on cutting spending because the red parts of the state disproportionately benefit from that spending.

[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.

=500*12 =6000 yearly 2.5% is $150 dollars.....

[Anonymous]

YAY

[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.

=500*12 =6000 yearly 2.5% is $150 dollars.....

DP. I'm so glad you showed up so yet another person could point out pp's math error. You really are contributing important substance to the discussion that no one else noticed before.