Gov. Malloy Proposes Measure To 'Tax' Coupons (New CT Gov)

wfsb.com ^ | February 27, 2011 | Associated Press

[RedCell]

Gov. Malloy Proposes Measure To 'Tax' Coupons Conn. Gov. Also Considers Raising State Sales Tax To 6.35%

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Devotees of coupons and discounts are angry at Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposal to slap a new sales tax on the original price of a good or service rather than the discounted price.

Ending the sales tax exemptions for coupons, discounts and automobile trade-ins are among tax exemptions Malloy has proposed ending to help close the state's projected $3.5 billion deficit. For example, the tax would be imposed on the $30 price of a blouse, not the $15 sales price.

[RedCell]

And the hits just keep on coming from this guy. He's going to wind up running both businesses and residents out of the state and will be left scratching his head wondering what happened. Tool. I need to find a more tax-friendly state with a warmer climate but isn't in the oven either. Suggestions welcome.

[gidget7]

IF we can hold out till retirement, we are moving to KY. Some family members already have moved there, VA, and SC. But all of us, born and raised in CT. A lot of family still there, but few of them voted for this jacklel,

[Red Badger]

The Panhandle of Florida is just the place!
Ft. Walton - Destin will be your dream home!........

[gidget7]

IF we can hold out till retirement, we are moving to KY. Some family members already have moved there, VA, and SC. But all of us, born and raised in CT. A lot of family still there, but few of them voted for this jackal,

[FrankR]

This guy is an idiot...doesn't he know that wholesale/retail people do coupons to boost sales on a particular item?

If you buy a $30 blouse for $15 with a coupon, it's probably because they haven't been moving that well at $30 bucks. Also, the higher the "regular" price the more of a bargain the customer thinks s/he is getting.

If the seller has to take a $15 cut in price, then so should the government.

It's time for Conn retailers to vote with their feet, and move on down the road where the government is not as greedy.

[Lazlo in PA]

I love you Gov. Malloy. You are the new poster child for the mindlessness of Liberals. After blaming your constituents that the states problems are because there isn't enough shared sacrifice, you come up with this gem. Fantastic.

That is why the nutmeg state is nothing but old money blue blood Libs, NYC entertainment people and a few dopes who haven't clued into why it is a bad place to live. In other words, dead. Keep going Gov. It's delightful to watch from afar.

[RobRoy]

>>IF we can hold out till retirement, we are moving to KY<<

Ha! We still live in Seattle, but we bought a farm in central KY two weeks before Urkel was elected. I’m working in earnest (finally) to get a full time position in the area. We moved virtually everything we own there last summer. What a beautiful and friendly state. My neighbors helped me pull 500 bales of hay off my place last year.

[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

My husband’s family goes back over 200 years in KY and WV. His parents were both born and raised there and now live just miles away from the KY border in southeast Indiana (dh was born there but raised in CA). Most of the relatives on both his mom and dad’s sides live in Kentucky. My parents used to own a houseboat down on Lake Cumberland. It’s beautiful, peaceful country.

[montag813]

How on earth is this legal? If the PRICE PAID is $15, you cannot legally tax a higher basis!

[GeronL]

So... one good thing is NO MORE FAKE “pre-sale” prices??

Besides that, this is insane

[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

I meant dh was born in KY, not southeast Indiana, LOL. We did live in SE Indiana for about 18 months—it’s quite nice as well, especially along the river. I’m quite partial to Indiana, being raised there from the age of 3 months to 22 years :)

[gidget7]

Yes it is a beautiful and friendly state. I visit most every summer, my brother and my Mom have a farm there. They, and my Dad, now deseased, bought it some 26 years ago. You cross the WV border on your way down, and you can feel the freedom in the air, LITERALLY! In a very pleasent way. The people still talk to each other, and the towns are still neighborly. When I visit it is like going home, though I have not yet lived there.

It is such a drastic difference from the NE!!! We were all born and raised here in the NE, and a few at a time we are leaving. I long for the day I can. I LOVE KY!

[GeronL]

Oh boy, what the Coupon Swami sez about this?

[denydenydeny]

But...but...I thought Democrat tax policy was based on making the “rich” pay their “fair share.”

I guess the rich must have made their money by clipping coupons. Cause the Democrats wouldn’t single out for new taxes those lower-middle-class consumers who use coupons to stretch their food budgets. Surely they wouldn’t do that.

[kingu]

Pshaw, that ain't nothin’. Taxin’ the original price? Shoot, we've got that scam well covered here in California. Fact, we went one better than all that silly stuff, we tax taxes! Seriously, every time you buy a beverage in a container, you are forced to pay a ‘CRV’, what used to be called a deposit. And guess what? That CRV is taxable under the sales tax rules.

Ten percent of a dime for every aluminum can, just in sales taxes.

Them Eastern boys had better get on the ball, missin’ easy methods like this to mess with the public. Shoot, I betcha they don't even bother putting sales tax on gasoline taxes either.

[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

We currently live in Arkansas—there’s something about the southern states that has me sucked in (we also lived in Louisiana for a while over a decade ago, north of New Orleans). We are moving to southeast OH, on the WV border after school lets out for the summer. Dh is already there and I’m here with the kids. We’ll be much closer to family that way. I just hope I can keep my drawl that I’ve picked up the last 10 years living in both Oklahoma and Arkansas—I kind of like it! Sweet tea runs through my veins :)

[RobRoy]

>>When I visit it is like going home, though I have not yet lived there.<<

That is EXACTLY how we feel*.

*But if we hear banjo music, we still paddle faster. ;)

[OldCountryBoy]

What’s the tax on taking a breath in CT?

[MasterGunner01]

Well, ain't he just precious! What an economic wizard!! Is the CT Governor Malloy channeling Governor “Moonbeam” Brown of CA? Residents of both states are so screwed.

Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life here.