CarolBeth Hawn on Facebook reminds me that my list of taxes you pay in the morning was woefully incomplete: You forgot to mention that the milk (taxed) you put into your coffee (taxed) had the following tax-line: Farmer (income tax) has land (property tax) on which he grazes his cows (tax on grass seed, tax on fertilizer spread by tractor, tax to buy tractor, which was also taxed in its production, tax on gas for tractor, tax on replacement tires and parts for tractor, which were also taxed in production), the cows were raised from calves produced on farm (capital gains) and visited by vet (tax on products, vet is also taxed ad nauseum) from semen purchased from an exchange (taxed), which are raised and milked in a milk shed or barn (more property tax) using equipment purchased (taxed, both on purchase and on production) and bottled (more equipment taxed on purchase and in production), sold to Meadow Gold (taxed ad nauseum), trucked to the grocery store in a refrigerated truck (taxed, taxed, taxed, gas tax), sold to store (sale is taxed, store is taxed ad nauseum) where it sits in big, taxed refrigerators, until you go to the store (gas tax, tax on vehicle) and purchase the milk (taxed) for your coffee (taxed). This is, of course, an abbreviated list. We’d need a flow chart to do it justice. The amazing thing isn’t that things cost so much, it is that they cost so LITTLE, being taxed on every level as they are!
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And that doesn't even touch the value-added tax.
Posted by: Fausta at April 15, 2014 12:35 PMWe buy our milk at Costco now. It's almost a dollar cheaper than regular grocery stores - $3.38 a gallon today. Their cartons are annoying, but if you use a lot of milk it's worth the hassle.
Posted by: Julie at April 15, 2014 12:52 PMThe dairy business is wholly regulated, which is the largest consumer tax of all by far.
Posted by: james wilson at April 15, 2014 1:06 PMCartons are good, they work well in the burn barrel.
I stopped drinking milk some 30 years ago, look at all the money I didn't spend. Have started to put it in my coffee lately, in lieu of cream, look at all the money I'm spending. Need to get a kow. Keep it in the kitchen, next to the coffee tree.
Posted by: ghostsniper at April 15, 2014 1:08 PMI drink raw milk,sraight from the parlor tank,in a gallon glass container. Fill it twice a week. Yummy stuff.
Moo-lan labe fuckers.
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I hate to burst your bubble but farmers are tax exempt on goods and service they buy, most states give some or all property taxes back. Income taxes are almost unheard of because of all the deductions available to production agriculture, so I don't know we're you get your info, but you just heard the facts from a farmer!
Posted by: Bob at April 16, 2014 3:33 PMI hate to burst your bubble but farmers are tax exempt on goods and service they buy, most states give some or all property taxes back. Income taxes are almost unheard of because of all the deductions available to production agriculture, so I don't know we're you get your info, but you just heard the facts from a farmer!
Posted by: Bob at April 16, 2014 3:33 PM
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