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Canned meat feels heat as [WA] state Senate looks for tax revenue
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Mar 30, 2005 02:13pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OLYMPIA — Meet the secret ingredient in the state budget: Spam.
Along with tax increases on cigarettes and hard liquor, the recently released Senate budget proposal would slap a higher tax on canned meat.
Spam, Vienna Sausages, potted ham, chili con carne — no tinned meat would be spared the higher tax rate. The business-and-occupation tax is paid by the producer, not the consumer, though taxes do have a way of trickling down the food chain.
"That's ridiculous," scoffed Richard Wilson of Olympia, who was drinking whiskey and smoking, though not eating tinned meat, at a bar called King Solomon's Reef yesterday afternoon.
"They're actually raising taxes on poor people who can't really afford it," Wilson said. "You know they don't have much money if they're eating chili out of a can." |
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