Many grocery store items will be taxed at 7.35% starting October 1 (CT)

WTNH.COM ^ | 09/13/2019 | Mark Davis

[Buckeye McFrog]

Station Location Info: WTNH / WCTX 8 Elm Street New Haven, CT 06510

For those of us who have not memorized the call letters of every local TV station in America.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Governor Lamont admits, he needed the money to balance his budget but sees this as a fairness issue adding, “I think our restaurants have been at a real disadvantage because people could go to grocery stores and buy the same thing you can get at a restaurant tax free at the grocery store.”

If "fairness" was the goal, they would eliminate the restaurant tax.

Progressives' idea of "fairness":
John is unfairly taxed, so we'll tax Bill unfairly also, then it will all be "fair".

[kiryandil]

“I think our restaurants have been at a real disadvantage because people could go to grocery stores and buy the same thing you can get at a restaurant tax free at the grocery store.”

Pretty soon, Connecticut is going to notice that people can get air tax free by breathing...

[avenir]

“Governor Lamont admits, he needed the money to balance his budget but sees this as a fairness issue adding, “I think our restaurants have been at a real disadvantage because people could go to grocery stores and buy the same thing you can get at a restaurant tax free at the grocery store.”

???

[newfreep]

Thanks for your snarky post.

Please see post #20...

[ChildOfThe60s]

News organizations are so clueless. How many local news stations make it clear where they are on their net sites? Few.

On average, how many minutes do you spent on those sites trying to figure out where they are located? What kind of journalism is it where the reader has to find clues on the page and then net search with them to find this out? Asinine.

My HS journalism teacher (1960s) would have given us what for if we wrote like that in her class.

A masters degree in journalism now isn’t even the equivalent of an “A” in my HS journalism class.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

+1 👍

[Kozak]

“I think our restaurants have been at a real disadvantage because people could go to grocery stores and buy the same thing you can get at a restaurant tax free at the grocery store.”

LOL. So cut the restaurant tax ass hat.

[John Milner]

“Please try noting the location or at least the state where this is happening.

Otherwise, it’s just a useless post.”

Thanks for this. This kind of thing happens a lot on FR and it is really frustrating

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I agree. So many posts list the radio/TV station call letters and I’m only familiar with maybe 20 nationwide. Then throw in a reference to “Springfield” or some other common city/town name and often I still have no idea where the news is happening.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Are supermarkets ready to process this tax?

[BlueLancer]

I don’t think that entry was in the keywords when I first looked at the article. I may have overlooked it, but I did look in the keywords to try to find the location identification.

[zerosix]

Super post but if “we” have to spend time searching where it’s from, it’s not at all helpful, and I’ve been guilty a time or two over the years!

[raybbr]

All that bitching for nothing.

[Lazamataz]

Good old Connecticut. If they’re not banning guns, they’re taxing Grandma’s meager food budget.

[oldvirginian]

Usually noted in either Topics or Keywords at the end of the article/excerpt.

[upchuck]

Just requested the mods add the state, CT, to the headline. Post is kinda worthless without the location.

[Puppage]

Well, I feel better now.

[Don W]

It says (CT) in the title. CT is Connecticut, if you didn’t know.

[KosmicKitty]

I’d like to know what my fellow High School buddy, Lenny, is going to do about it.

Yeah, we were in the same graduating class. Lenny always had to be class president. Probably because no one else waned the job.

[KosmicKitty]

He seriously said this? In public?

That's why I call him Deadhead Ned