[Vision2020] Why Idaho sales taxes on food?

[Donovan Arnold]

Ralph,
  
 People have been bitching about the tax on food ever  since it existed. Any grocery clerk will tell you this that has rung up  a Washington customer, and a sizable number of Idahoans. 
  
  The Democrats and the Republicans don't voice it because they don't  represent the people, they represent the interests of their political  parties. 
  
  Republicans want a tax on the food for tax breaks for property owners. 
  
  The Democrats want to tax food so they can spend it on salary increases for teachers. 
  
  Neither party has suggested or promoted legislation taxing beauty  salons and massage parlors instead of food. If prostitution was legal  in Idaho, it wouldn't be taxed because it is a service. 
  
  Best,
  
  _DJA

Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu> wrote:  It would seem that some of our bleeding hearts are concerned about  
poor people going to Washington to buy their food in order to avoid  
paying Idaho sales taxes on it.

I can't understand why they didn't raise a clamor when the Idaho  
Legislature refused to cut taxes on food but instead cut the income  
taxes on the rich by $100 million.

Ralph 

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