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No surprise, every year this comes up, and every year their desire to stick it to the poor (and frankly anyone who eats food) is maintained;
The House Taxation Committee voted 11-3 Tuesday to defeat the bill. It would have increased the state’s 4.5 percent sales tax rate on other goods and services to remove the tax on food for home consumption.
Long a popular idea among Democratic lawmakers, such food sales tax bills have failed in the past. Democratic Rep. Ray Ring, the bill’s main sponsor, says the measure would help make South Dakota’s tax structure less regressive.
Business organizations, Republican lawmakers and the executive branch opposed the bill.
It is estimated that those on the lowest level of the income bracket in our state pay between 16-Â 20% of their income towards taxes, and the working class isn’t much better.
I’m against sales taxes to begin with, a horrible and regressive way to fund government, but taxing food and exempting stuff like advertising makes no sense at all. If we are going to tax food at the full 4.5% state tax rate, we should tax EVERYTHING at that rate, no exemptions.
The SD GOP proves once again what they think about the working stiffs of this state, you are dirt, oh, and please stop voting for measures that make us do our job ethically.
‘House of Lords’ is right.