Sacramento wants to tax soda, tires, guns, water, pain pills, lawyers, car batteries... - Los Angeles Times"To plagiarize T.S. Eliot, April is the cruelest month.
But not for the reasons the poet wrote.
Rather, for all the taxes.
...There are a whole bunch of taxing ideas in the Capitol: on new tires, firearms, water, prescription painkillers, lawyers, car batteries, corporations based on their CEO pay, estates worth more than $3.5 million, oil and gas extraction.
The list goes on.
...with backing from the California medical and dental associations. It would hike the tax on sugary soda by 2 cents an ounce, or 24 cents for a 12-ounce can.
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