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Sweet, Sweet Taxes

27 February 2010

Tweet Colorado Governor Bill Ritter (D) made headlines all over the country this week when signed a bill adding sales tax to candy and soda. The bill was one of nine bills meant to address the state’s $1.5 billion budget shortfall. The bill, as in other states like Pennsylvania, is being touted as an elimination [...]

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Is Dark Chocolate Really More of a Tax Burden?

5 November 2007

Tweet I’m such a sucker for Milky Ways – especially the Milky Way Midnight (note to readers contemplating holiday gifts…). And Iowa has brought to the forefront an issue that I’ve been claiming for years: all candy bars are not created equal. Iowa has stirred up some serious candy tax controversy with its definitions of [...]

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