Georgia GOP Raising Taxes On Girl Scout Cookies While Cutting

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http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/08/georgia-girl-scout-taxes/


Georgia GOP Raising Taxes On Girl Scout Cookies While Cutting Taxes On Foreign Corporations


Like many states, Georgia is facing a budget shortfall. To address the problem, the legislature is considering a bill that would expand the tax base by doing things like reinstating a sales tax on food and raising the tax on gasoline.

Many Georgians would be adversely affected by the tax hikes on basic commodities, including the Girl Scouts, who are worried about the “significant financial impact” the bill would have on the revenue they raise through cookie sales, which would now be subject to sales tax. Over the weekend, Marilyn Midyette, the CEO of Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, sent an email to supporters warning them that the new tax on their cookies “would take money away from Girl Scout programs“:

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But while Girl Scouts and anyone who buys groceries and gasoline is forced to sacrifice, domestic and foreign corporations in Geogia are being lavished with a tax break. The same bill that raises taxes on Girl Scouts Cookies lowers tax rates on corporate income, from 6 percent this year to just 4 percent in 2014:

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ass backward state

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. One more nail in the coffin.

I still cannot get over the fact that so many Fox Saturated Brains do not realize this isn't belt-tightening, it's class warfare. Economic subjugation, plain and simple.

[daa]

2. And to think I live here

The house passed a bill saying that the President of the United States has to sign an affidavit stating he is US born American citizen.

They talk about the Constitution but they never seem to read it or know what it says. I always thought the constitution stated the qualifications for president.

I guess that is what happens when they keep cutting education here.

[jmowreader]

3. I'm not really worried about the sales tax on Girl Scout cookies

Anyone who would spend $3.50 for a box with fifteen cookies in it would have NO problem whatsoever paying an extra six percent. I don't ever think anyone bought GS cookies to get a good deal on cookies--in part because GS cookies are unbelievably expensive; they buy them to help the Girl Scouts.

These fuckers are talking about reinstating the tax on bread, milk and ground beef. That's the problem here. Insert picture of poor single mother attempting to stretch her budget by another six percent so corporate interests don't have to pay so much tax in 2012.

[old mark]

4. K&R- Sell more of them cookies, and the defecit is OVER!...

Isn't Georgia the state where...Oh, never mind-of course it is.

mark