{"id":468,"date":"2020-09-10T19:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T23:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/?p=468"},"modified":"2022-12-15T23:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T04:00:32","slug":"arbitrary-taxation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/2020\/09\/10\/arbitrary-taxation\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbitrary taxation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to the dollar-store to get more of those 730g tins of Maxwell House coffee for $2.50 because it’s a great deal. Unfortunately, they were sold out and probably won’t be back (apparently the dollar-store gets one-time items for some reason \ud83e\udd28). I knew it was too good to be true. \ud83d\ude15 Thankfully I got 10 tins while they had them, so hopefully I’ll be able to drink coffee with impunity for a while.<\/p>\n

Anyway, while I was there, I figured I’d see about getting some other stuff. To my surprise, they had some relatively cheap (but brand-name) soap available, so I bought a bunch so that I don’t have to worry about running low (I swear soap melts faster than it used, probably on purpose so that you have to buy it more often \ud83d\ude12). Then I got tempted by the snack aisle. This is bad because I’m trying to do the Keto diet, and all that junk has carbs galore.<\/p>\n

I figured I’d get a few things that were a decent value and just leave them in the basement as storage for the future (or hypothetical\u2014read imaginary \ud83d\ude44\u2014 guests).<\/p>\n

The strangest part is that when I looked at the receipt, the items that were and weren’t taxed was baffling. The soap was taxed, which seems stupid since soap is hardly a luxury or an unnecessary item. \ud83d\ude12 Moreover, granola bars were also taxed even though they’re the “healthy” snack, but all the other junk foods were not taxed.<\/p>\n

Who the heck decides what gets taxed or not? This seems pretty random. (I wish I could attribute it to Hanlon’s razor, but the jaded cynic in me has to assume they taxed the soap because it was more expensive. \u00ac_\u00ac)<\/p>\n

\"Receipt<\/a>
How do they decide what items get taxed? \ud83e\udd14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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How do they decide what items get taxed? \ud83e\udd14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to the dollar-store to get more of those 730g tins of Maxwell House coffee for $2.50 because it’s a great deal. Unfortunately, they were sold out and probably won’t be back (apparently the dollar-store gets one-time items for some reason \ud83e\udd28). I knew it was too good to be true. \ud83d\ude15 Thankfully I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}