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So your saying the sales taxes are like tariffs, as they are being used to spread the cost to all purchasers without reguard to income making them harm lower and middle class people more, without ever having to raise taxes back to reasonable levels for the high income members of society. (3 million a year+)
I'm not saying anything about sales tax.
I'm saying that if you tax foods high in corn syrup, you're just making it cost what it's supposed to cost. You're literally subsidizing the least healthy food at the moment.
Yeah tax on food is strange. It's 0% in Florida for unprepared food, 10% in Tennessee.
I think that’s common. Here in Massachusetts, sales tax does not apply to food ingredients, but prepared food is taxed, and in many places they add a ”hospitality tax” to fleece the tourists and anyone going someplace popular
In Florida corn syrup isn't taxed at 0% it's taxed below 0% because it's already gone through layers of subsidies.