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Why do I get charged tax when I buy Iced Tea??

LostHiWay

LostHiWay

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This is really starting to annoy me. At about 50% of gas stations, mini-stores, etc. whenever I buy a bottle of Iced Tea I get charged sales tax. It's really annoying to buy a 99 cent iced tea and have the clerk ring it up and charge sales tax which brings the total to 1.06 and I have break another dollar bill since I usually don't carry change.

Did people not learn about the Boston Tea Party in school?? I even said something once and they thought I was an idiot. errr.....
 
This is considered a prepared food.....they are all taxed. If you go and buy tea bags and you own water....no tax!

Real stupid tax laws here in Texas.....small snack size bags of chips are taxable....but buy a large "family" bag....no tax.
Things that are packaged for immediate consumption are taxed....otherwise they are not.
 


<< It's really annoying to buy a 99 cent iced tea and have the clerk ring it up and charge sales tax which brings the total to 1.06 and I have break another dollar bill since I usually don't carry change. >>

What happens to the change after you buy the iced tea for $1.06?
 
Reminds me of a story. Obviously not too many people are familiar with the Boston Tea Party. Just last week I was in a store buying a bottle of Snapple Lemon Iced Tea. Someone walks up to me and goes, &quot;You are killing your own people dude.&quot; I bascially went, &quot;huh?&quot;

Then he goes on explaining how the picture on the label is a slave ship unloading africans to be sold into slavery and the circle &quot;k&quot; is for KKK. I politely explained that the picture on the logo is the Boston Tea Party and the circle &quot;K&quot; stood for kosher. Then he tells me that I have been brainwashed by &quot;the man.&quot; Who the heck uses the phrase &quot;the man&quot; anymore? How am I killing &quot;my own&quot; people? I;m Chinese.

Its funny how a totally wacky urban legend continues on because of sheer stupidity.

Windogg
 
I think they should start including tax in the price so that the price for a bottle of pop is say $1.00 and you pay $1.00 at the counter. The actual price being $0.93 + $0.07tax...or whatever. That would just simplify things so much!

amish
 


<< Try coming to New Orleans. >>

I have. Four times, actually. I was always so incoherent from the mint juleps I didn't give a damn what I was paying for anything. What a town!
 


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<< Try coming to New Orleans. >>

I have. Four times, actually. I was always so incoherent from the mint juleps I didn't give a damn what I was paying for anything. What a town! >>



Mint Juleps...*barf* Man those things are pure bourbon.

Ugh, I had a couple of those 2 weeks ago at Pat O's (I don't normally go there--too touristy, but I had use of a limo for a weekend and my friends and we figured we'd cruise the Quarter).
 


<< Reminds me of a story. Obviously not too many people are familiar with the Boston Tea Party. Just last week I was in a store buying a bottle of Snapple Lemon Iced Tea. Someone walks up to me and goes, &quot;You are killing your own people dude.&quot; I bascially went, &quot;huh?&quot;

Then he goes on explaining how the picture on the label is a slave ship unloading africans to be sold into slavery and the circle &quot;k&quot; is for KKK. I politely explained that the picture on the logo is the Boston Tea Party and the circle &quot;K&quot; stood for kosher. Then he tells me that I have been brainwashed by &quot;the man.&quot; Who the heck uses the phrase &quot;the man&quot; anymore? How am I killing &quot;my own&quot; people? I;m Chinese. >>


that's hilarious, i've never heard of an african-american/asian-american alliance, but i could be wrong.

i find that at my local 7-11, the guy charges me tax when he feels like it. i've bought a bottle of soda two days in a row and been charged tax for only the first day.
 


<< I think they should start including tax in the price so that the price for a bottle of pop is say $1.00 and you pay $1.00 at the counter. The actual price being $0.93 + $0.07tax...or whatever. That would just simplify things so much! >>


sounds good in theory, but hard to implement IRL because of the different tax rates of different states, plus deposit on certain soft drinks.
 
check this out.
Mr Pib's
it's buy one, get one free.......
yet, i get charged tax, on the free one too!
WTF!
pisses me off
i don't know how they do it, but they do
 


<< Mint Juleps...*barf* Man those things are pure bourbon >>

Exactly! 😀
Werk, you've got me in a Bourbon Street state of mind..........DuMonde Cafe,
St. Louis Cathedral, and the food, man, the food! Cool lookin' transvestites, too.
 
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