Girl Scout Cookie Tax

[my2sense]

source: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/08/georgia-girl-scout-taxes/

Like many states, Georgia is facing a budget shortfall. To address the problem, the legislature is considering a bill that would expand the tax base by doing things like reinstating a sales tax on food and raising the tax on gasoline.

Many Georgians would be adversely affected by the tax hikes on basic commodities, including the Girl Scouts, who are worried about the “significant financial impact” the bill would have on the revenue they raise through cookie sales, which would now be subject to sales tax. Over the weekend, Marilyn Midyette, the CEO of Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, sent an email to supporters warning them that the new tax on their cookies “would take money away from Girl Scout programs“:

This significant financial impact would take money away from Girl Scout programs, camp support, financial aid and proceeds from the sale that support troop activities and community service projects.

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lease contact your State House Representative and State Senator TODAY and express your concern in a courteous, Scout-like manner about our Scouts being taxed. Please reference House Bill 385. Sample letters have been provided on the left to make it easy to copy and paste into your own email. There are sample letters for girls as well as for parents and volunteers.

More at the link

[HuckleB]

1. That does suck for the Girl Scouts, but I'm more worried about the poor who must pay a tax on food.

That seems like the tax that could truly hurt those who can't afford to be hurt.

[inademv]

2. Why aren't corporate taxes an option?

[Angry Dragon]

3. Eliminate all pensions for elected officials

past, present, and future
they were the ones that created the mess let them share in the belt tightening

[my2sense]

4. Seems some of these politicians

have no limits to the depths they will go to tax the middle class/poor while protecting the rich. It's disgusting.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. If they're going to tax nonprofits when they sell stuff, then Georgia should also

tax churches for bake sales, Christmas bazaars, white elephant sales, etc.