Here’s the absurd state of taxation our broke state has us in these days:
• Buy a sliced bagel, pay a tax. Buy a whole, untoasted bagel, it’s tax-free.
• Buy a Twix bar in the candy aisle, pay a tax. Buy a package of Twix from the cookie aisle, your goodies are tax-free.
• Buy a potted aloe vera plant, pay a tax. Buy an aloe vera leaf, it’s tax-free.
Our tax-obsessed state has taken tax collection to a new level.
The state — not willing to give up any extra penny — periodically sends out dispatches from Albany parsing the various ways the state’s sales tax should be applied.
Some are just plain laughable, if it weren’t our hard-earned dollars they’re talking about.
Tang, that orange drink developed for astronauts and sent to the moon, remains free of sales tax along with V-8 and natural fruit juices. But Kool-Aid and Hi-C rack up sales tax.
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