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June 2, 2009
Denver's Double Tax on Cooking Oil
Now that greedy bureaucrats have levied a tax on pretty much everything, it's time to start taxing things twice. In Denver, restaurants have to pay a separate tax on cooking oil — on top of the sales tax collected for the food cooked with it:
Colorado Restaurant Association Big Cheese Pete Meersman is afraid the city of Denver's Department of Revenue is jumping out of the frying pan and into the fryer.
At issue? During some recent restaurant-industry audits, the city has claimed separate sales tax on frying oil, claiming that the oil is a separate product because it is not absorbed into the product.
Try telling that to a cardiologist who wants you to cut down on French fries.
"Let's say you have a grilled cheese sandwich restaurant," Meersman said. "All the products you get in — including the oil, bread, cheese, garnishes — you don't pay sales tax on because you're going to turn around and add all those costs up, charge a price and the customer pays sales tax on top of that.
"The problem with trying to collect sales tax on wholesale cooking oil is that it is already being taxed on the retail side."
Yes, but by taxing the oil twice, the government can seize more wealth. The death tax works on the same principle.
Meersman wonders:
Are they going to start charging sales tax on potato peelings? Uneaten chicken bones? The water that's used to boil pasta? Clam shells?
This guy is full of ideas; he could have a future in the Obamination Administration.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 2, 2009 7:21 PM
Comments
Today our food cooking utensils, tomorrow our food!!
AC
Posted by: AC at June 2, 2009 7:39 PM
Their the kind who would steal dfrom the rich and poor just so these jerks have more money for thier rediculous pork projects
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at June 2, 2009 9:11 PM
Not to mention that the state can have no real use for the revenue pittance; its just a coerced transfer from one pocket to another.
Posted by: Fiberal at June 2, 2009 9:15 PM
Wait, wait, wait...
If I'm buying bananas by the pound - does this mean I should peel them before I get to the checkout?
Ooooo - the old duck-turd's flippin' now**...
(** that's Texan for I have my thinking cap on - please don't ask me the true origins of the term - that would be like asking me why we call lunch dinner and dinner supper... the answer could scare the wings off a grasshopper!)
Posted by: Jimbo at June 2, 2009 9:34 PM
Theres quite afew goverment agencies that should be totaly eliminated and that includes the DENVER DEPT of REVENUE
Posted by: Flu-Bird at June 2, 2009 11:14 PM
Jimbo, they called them that in Maine, too. You have to be careful making dates when you're a transfer.
What happened to Colorado? Used to be a nice conservative state. It was infiltrated, including by my moonbat stepson.
Posted by: Karin at June 3, 2009 5:23 AM
Karin, maybe this old joke I heard when I lived in NM will explain...
What three things terrify a Coloradan?
A Texan with a hunting license, a New Mexican with a driver's license, and a Californian with a U-Haul.
Native liberals destroyed their own states but just can't comprehend that it's their own doing... now their spreading inland from the coasts like locusts, oblivious to the cause and effect relationship between voting booth and quality of life. Hopefully, it'll take them some time to make it to Louisiana.
Posted by: hiram at June 3, 2009 5:33 AM
When I was stationed at Ft. Carson in 1959-60, Colorado was a great state to live in. The singer John Denver ruined all that with his sappy "Rockey Mountain High" song thereby luring flocks of hippies to the state. The rest is, as they say, history.
Posted by: oldguy at June 5, 2009 8:00 AM
