# Fucking ass-biscuits are taxing my Marshmallow Fluff! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 2, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023 "2016-01-02T23:13:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/21 "2016-01-03T01:32:02Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Do they need the money? > > Serious question. Do you know if they are short tax revenue for a good reason and vital government services are threatened? Or are they just taxing because they want as much of your money as they can to waste and fritter away? > > Here’s the thing - you can’t just guess or assume the answer and get all pissy because you know exactly what you pay in taxes but nothing about what they pay for. Too many people do that. I think it’s obvious that they do need the money, for whatever reason. The governor wants to cut income tax and make up the lost revenue with sales tax. The OP is complaining that the trumpets are about the cut in income tax, while the trumpets ignore the increase in sales tax that makes it a net tax increase for him. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/22 "2016-01-03T01:35:58Z")
The governor wants to cut income tax because his shareholders have to pay some of it. The sales tax, at least, is duly regressive, and it is easier for the governor’s supporters to go out of state to avoid it when they have to buy really expensive stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/23 "2016-01-03T02:35:43Z")
Maine is a very high tax state. Income, sales, excise, toll roads, bottle deposit, gas taxes, cigarette taxes, hotels, restaurant food. Some states don’t have all. Technically you can drive the only interstate without paying tolls… you just can’t ride it the whole way. And you have to pay several times, depending on how far you go. I find too that the amount of services you get in exchange for a high tax rate is not worth it. I can’t think of anything in Maine that is cheaper than its neighbors. Maybe seafood. I felt like I was paying paying paying paying and having nothing to show for it. I didn’t know about this latest round and it makes me glad not to live there anymore. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/24 "2016-01-03T14:45:12Z")
Fluff is almost pure sugar. Obviously, Jamie Oliver got to the governor. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/25 "2016-01-03T20:02:54Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > We need to be clear here. The these proper ass-biscuits, or just savory ass-scones? One thing is for certain, they are engaging in intercourse. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/26 "2016-01-03T20:16:40Z")
Gawd damnit…ass biscuits will never be as they were… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/27 "2016-01-04T04:41:58Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Move to, like, Magalloway. Then you can just pop over the border to buy all your stuff. Or, you know, down to Kittery, where it’s closer to civilization 😃 So they tax grocery items in Maine now too? Huh. Sales tax is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/28 "2016-01-04T09:54:08Z")
Food is subject to sales tax in Idaho. Years ago we had a chance to do away with taxing food (referendum). My representative was in favor of keeping things as they were and are. His reason was so that the tourists would have to pay their share. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/29 "2016-01-04T13:32:04Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > In addition to the lodging tax, Maine is increasing (or making applicable) sales tax to such things as potato chips, nuts and seeds that have been processed (i.e., all of them), bakery items and basic cable TV. I’m having a hard time seeing how this is aimed at tourists. Those aren’t, but they are all “non-essentials” - they are the taxes that squeeze the middle class, but can’t be accused of screwing the poor because they shouldn’t be buying potato chips with their food stamps anyway. (Note there is sarcasm in the tone there that doesn’t come through in writing). So its a way to de-fang the liberals (I bet they aren’t taxing frozen spinach, sweet potatoes, rice or beans - i.e. the “nutritious staples”), screw the middle class, and avoid increasing taxes - and potentially decreasing taxes - on the wealthy - who really don’t care if marshmellow fluff is taxed or not - they don’t buy significant amounts of it. (Marshmallow Fluff is a “common grocery item?” I did buy some this holiday season because my teenager wanted to make simple fudge (I’ve always done fudge the hard way), I think it was the first time in 20 years I’d bought marshmallow fluff.) ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/30 "2016-01-04T14:25:13Z")
Can I take a moment to pit the actual marshmellow fluff itself. Yeah, you can get the first few spoonfuls out okay. But once you start having to dig for it becomes the messy product from hell. It’s like they culinary equivalent of Briar Rabbit and the Tar Baby. God help you if you are a little kid and you are trying to get the last serving outa there. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/31 "2016-01-04T14:43:14Z")
So a horrible container of this corn syrup puke apparently costs about $3. That makes sales tax on that confectionery vomit to be about 16 cents per creamy load. If you got a $100 income tax break, you’d have to buy $625 of this diabetes goop (that’s about 4 mini-buckets a week) to see your tax bill break even. Why it is unfair to tax this undigested shit, but it’s okay to tax normal foods (like frozen packages of TGI Friday’s Thrice-Fried “It’s Almost Chicken” Wing Blasters, or Hermanos Grasa 26 oz Burrito Buckets con Queso – you know, the stuff that athletes eat while in training), eludes me. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/32 "2016-01-04T14:45:59Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > “It’s Almost Chicken” Wing Blasters, o. I LOLed on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023/33 "2016-01-04T14:59:25Z")
Meh. Get back to me when they’re taxing your bellybutton fluff and I’ll maybe muster a little outrage. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-ass-biscuits-are-taxing-my-marshmallow-fluff/742023.md?page=1)