This story has been posted on a number of sites and mentioned on the electronic media;
http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap/o/632/10-31-2007/a1ef000943296590.html
Taxing pumpkins? Give Me a Break:
IOWA has about 3,000,000 people and is about 146,000km². So if every person purchased a pumpkin for $1.00 at IA sales tax rate that is a whopping $150,000 less cost to collect. Even if ever citizen purchased 5 pumpkins for the same dollar /pumpkin price this is still less that 1,000,000.
This may cover the salary of the non-thinking bureaucrat who decided to tax this crop ---
$150,000 is a tad more that a dollar a km². Could not the state of IOWA save that much buy turning off the lights for the evening?
2007-10-31
08:31:27
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