Mildly Interesting

17588 readers

8 users here now

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

marcar@lemmy.world

Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml

WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world

Terevos@lemm.ee

381

My Grocery shopping was exactly $40.00 (pawb.social)

submitted 10 months ago by colourlesspony@pawb.social to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

53 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I didn't have a budget or anything so I found it mildly interesting that it turned out an even number.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] radix@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Where do you live that there's no tax?

[–] colourlesspony@pawb.social 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Arizona, Groceries aren't taxed here.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

Got it. I thought this was a restaurant receipt for Panera, but groceries makes more sense not to tax.

[–] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Groceries aren't taxed? Wow

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only 13 states tax groceries.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Arizona

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know where OP is, but here in Massachusetts, we have no sales tax on groceries:

https://www.salestaxhandbook.com/massachusetts/sales-tax-exemptions

[–] radix@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Got it. I thought this was a restaurant receipt for Panera, but groceries makes more sense not to tax.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

No they don’t!

This creates a need for the law to distinguish between grocery stores and restaurants, leading to artificial barriers to innovation within the marketplace.

Laws should be simple, and create a level landscape on which people can make design choices motivated by utility, instead of adherence to the unnatural incentive landscape of a highly-varied legal system.

It only takes O(1) effort to adapt one’s brain to nature, and to the set of societal arrangements that naturally arise within nature. It takes O(N) effort to adapt one’s brain to new sets of rules that change the incentive landscape, where N is the number of times the rules change.

[–] JackLSauce@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

NE has the same no-grocery tax rule. A handful of states have no sales tax in general (I believe SD and either NH or VT for example) and many, if not all, won't tax groceries purchased with whatever food stamps are called in the respective state

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No sales tax in Oregon, but income taxes are rough. My friend moved across the river to Vancouver, WA and makes ~$50k more a year from tax savings.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like your friend is very wealthy.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Seems like he's doing pretty well, yeah. He spends most of his money on rental properties though and I don't think he has tenants at all of them.