Posted on 01/05/2013 9:17:20 AM PST by yoe
Typically, the clerk/cashier won’t know? What can one do in that case? In any intercourse with a manaer, one must know what one is talking about. “I’m not paying this because ________.”
It is possible that there are as many as 100 separate taxes on just a loaf of bread. Starting with the purchase of the seed and fertilizer by the farmer, the fuel for his tractor etc. etc. all the way to the delivery and shelving of the product at your local store. Think about it. Taxes are everywhere...and YOU pay them.
“Maybe the salad is a medical device, or fat free food& is a medical device.
Maybe automobile catalytic converters (helps asthma patients) are medical devices.
Fruits and vegetables could be medical devices (aids with bowel movements) along with vitamins.
Temperpedic beds along with Posturepedic beds, memory foam pillows might be medical devices (promotes good sleep).
I guess seat belts and air bags are on the medical device list (prevents injury in auto crash).
Homedics massagers are probably on the list too.
Dr. Schoals foot implants ditto.
Maybe alarm systems, mace, and small handguns are medical devices (helps prevent rape).
You know maybe we can balance the budget with the medical device tax afterall.”
Folks, welcome to the Arbeitsziehungslager. I have been warning this for years.
It’s in there. Read the full story at The Blaze.
It wasn’t a scam. It was a computer glitch. Cabela’s will refund the money to anyone who asks.
From the article:
There are two main categories of devices exempt from the tax. First, eyeglasses, contact lenses and hearing aids are specifically listed as being exempt. The second and broader category, commonly referred to as the “Retail Exception,” exempts a device which is “of a type which is generally purchased by the general public at retail for individual use.”
So, probably, the individual items you listed are exempt.
bow strings? are a medical device?
Idiots, just nuts.
Since I was over there copying something else, here ya go:
A series of phone calls to both the corporate offices of Cabela’s as well as three Texas outlets where the taxes have been showing up yielded what appears to be a satisfactory explanation and resolution.
Customer service reps for Cabela’s stated the added tax was “a computer glitch that has been fixed.” In one case, a representative offered to take my receipt information over the phone and expedite a refund to my credit card. Cash purchases that were hit with the extra 2.3% tax must return to the store for a cash refund.
From what I can see in the article, it’s expected the tax will be collected at the distributor level, thus hiding it from the consumer. If there was a mess-up here, it was in tipping the hand of the government.
Wait until people start getting their W2 forms this month. The employer’s contributions to health insurance will be listed and folks are going to get sticker shock. Heh. Good.
This turned out to be a computer glitch and Cabela’s will refund the money.
But ya gotta wonder ...
Somebody had to program this. Somebody wrote the code to charge a medical excise tax either on specific items sold at Cabela’s or on all Cabela’s receipts. Seems like a weird glitch. I can understand that they were updating their source code for taxes since it’s the beginning of the new year. And I guess they could be pulling the tax and it’s description from a database and maybe the wrong tax was indexed, but still it’s weird.
According to the page your search found, both tires and GPS devices are listed ... along with bow strings and just about everything else they sell. Everything must have some sort of real, poosible or imagined medical use ...
“It is possible that there are as many as 100 separate taxes on just a loaf of bread. Starting with the purchase of the seed and fertilizer by the farmer, the fuel for his tractor etc. etc. all the way to the delivery and shelving of the product at your local store. Think about it. Taxes are everywhere...and YOU pay them”
Which is why the phony “market” (along with commodities/oil) rose this week, and fed employees were after raises, because of the cliff extortion
Many (if not most) have been behavior-conditioned, and bred into, that propaganda that “Bush” tax rates are a good thing, not realizing that had the “cliff” not gone through the market drops 400 > points, and the savings (in multiples) begins at the store.
Those that think they are not double or triple COST-”taxed” because of the “Bush” so called “cut”, are totally brainwashed or behaviorally-conditioned inbred, never having experienced a 5 and 10, 37 cents/gallon, nickle candy bar, 1200$ VW, nice brand new OWNED (not rented-payments from a bank) for under 3000$ brand new, and a nice new home under 20K.
Those that “think” the preservation of the “Bush” (”mark my words, no new taxes” Family) “cuts” RATES) saved them money, are now subject to sustained higher price pressures, or price pressured to spend less, lowering their living standard.
Productivity is not matching, nor sustaining these levels, and the reason feds wanted pay raises.
Toothbrushes and tampons count ...
We had dinner in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago and there was a 4% charge tacked onto the dinner bill for “Employer Mandates”.
My health insurance premium went up 27% this year (144% last year) I don’t understand, I thought all this health care stuff was supposed to be free??? /s
download irs form 720 and look at part II - there has been an excise tax on some sporting goods for years, so I wonder if they just mislabeled what was being taxed?
Uh....
“And I guess they could be pulling the tax and its description from a database and maybe the wrong tax was indexed, but still its weird.”
Not it isn’t, the MO for the shakedown gang. Move the goalposts shakedowns.
In fact, what is happening is now a “duty”/”tariffs” on each “citizen” by 1. behavior (any), and 2. movement (anywhere)...now SUBJECTs of the State.
“Extortion-Care is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager”
I notice that gas pumps no longer list the state and fed fuel taxes.
Yeah, I get that, but the federal government didn’t program the software that prints Cabela’s receipts. It’s a weird computer glitch.
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