I love the IRS

[Chucktshoes]

Items paid for with EBT are not charged sales tax. The amount paid for with a coupon is reimbursed as cash by the issuer of that coupon. That is the reason that tax is collected on the amount paid for by a coupon.

[btq96r]

Items paid for with EBT are not charged sales tax. The amount paid for with a coupon is reimbursed as cash by the issuer of that coupon. That is the reason that tax is collected on the amount paid for by a coupon.

 

I still don't see why it's on the purchaser and not the business to pay the tax.  The business recoups it from who issued the coupon, right? 

 

At this point, we're being taxed on hypothethicals instead of the actual transaction.  It would be like paying sales tax on the difference between normal retail and a Labor Day sale price.

[Dennis1209]

The problem with food assistance is there are few stipulations on what they can purchase. Red Bull? Really?

All food assistance should be modeled on the WIC program.

Red Bull and soda are not a valid use of my tax dollars.

 

 

No! That's not the problem with food assistance. The problem with government food assistance is it's socialistic, lifetime, filled with fraud, un-Constitutional and lowers the dietary standards I work to pay for, not to mention lowering our living standards. Our monthly grocery bill including laundry and hygiene products is normally $350 - $375.00 a month. We clip coupons, buy sale and off brand products and try and get the best bang for our EARNED dollar. There's something wrong when the life time obese welfare bunnies eat better than I do, and hop into their late model car I can't afford and drive across the street to the liquor / lotto store and dump half their welfare check on booze and tickets.

 

And yes, I'm going to group every welfare bunny into my classification because it should be common knowledge and observation that the vast majority are able bodies capable of work and supporting themselves. But choose the lazy obese lifestyle because it's a God given lawful right not to work to support yourself.

 

Ever paid attention to the character, conduct, what they drive, what they purchase and the bling most these fine representatives of humanity possess?

 

I worked hard to provide a better life for me and my family. I don't work to have a substantial portion of my wages deducted from my earnings to be pissed away and flaunted in my face at every grocery check out line. It's not only wrong, it's insulting. But hey, that's the productive society we created right?