Comments on: Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold testifies against unconstitutional “Doggy Bag Tax” enabled by Colorado Supreme Court http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/2010/02/04/clear-the-bench-colorado-director-matt-arnold-testifies-against-unconstitutional-%e2%80%9cdoggy-bag-tax%e2%80%9d-enabled-by-colorado-supreme-court/ Returning accountability to our judicial system... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:59:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Alfred Costanzo http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/2010/02/04/clear-the-bench-colorado-director-matt-arnold-testifies-against-unconstitutional-%e2%80%9cdoggy-bag-tax%e2%80%9d-enabled-by-colorado-supreme-court/comment-page-1/#comment-6044 Alfred Costanzo Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:49:04 +0000 http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/?p=3448#comment-6044 I'm a New Mexico resident and have been looking for property in the Pagosa Springs area as a possible retirement home or second summer home. After reading the kinds of repressive taxes that are being imposed on my neighbors up North I have given very serious reservations to ever moving or buying property in Colorado. It looks like they are trying to grab and squeeze every possible nickle out of it's residents. "A doggy bag tax" If I purchase a meal in an establishment and ask for a doggy bag to bring home to my pet after I have already paid for the meal and the taxes which go with it, the idea of paying another tax to get a bag to bring home the food already purchased is absurd. Furthermore the Candy Tax is equally absurd and the repressive tax on auto's well put it this way, I'm glad that when deciding to move from New York City out West, I looked seriously at Colorado Springs and Albuquerque as possible places to move, I picked Albuquerque New Mexico instead of Colorado. I brought my Advertising business and established a new location and employed 12 people. I'm glad I drew from the creative people I found here. It is tough enough to run a business with all the laws and regulations and taxes that are required to get and keep it going. The last thing I need is to be in a place that has this atitude that they can create any kind of loophole to drain more money out of the people, that is an enviornment I will not be part of. I'm retired now and had been very successful here in New Mexico because it was an enviornemt that encouraged business not repress it. I'm not sure what dollar amount I had paid over the 28 years I've had the business but I assure you I had paid my fair share in taxes. I'm glad that I did not have to contribute my tax money to encourage such government leeches as you have in Colorado. I'm happy to have made the move to New Mexico instead of Colorado. Furthermore the idea of living in a state which allows these people to remain in office is a sad reflection on the people who live here. I’m a New Mexico resident and have been looking for property in the Pagosa Springs area as a possible retirement home or second summer home. After reading the kinds of repressive taxes that are being imposed on my neighbors up North I have given very serious reservations to ever moving or buying property in Colorado. It looks like they are trying to grab and squeeze every possible nickle out of it’s residents. “A doggy bag tax” If I purchase a meal in an establishment and ask for a doggy bag to bring home to my pet after I have already paid for the meal and the taxes which go with it, the idea of paying another tax to get a bag to bring home the food already purchased is absurd. Furthermore the Candy Tax is equally absurd and the repressive tax on auto’s well put it this way, I’m glad that when deciding to move from New York City out West, I looked seriously at Colorado Springs and Albuquerque as possible places to move, I picked Albuquerque New Mexico instead of Colorado. I brought my Advertising business and established a new location and employed 12 people. I’m glad I drew from the creative people I found here. It is tough enough to run a business with all the laws and regulations and taxes that are required to get and keep it going. The last thing I need is to be in a place that has this atitude that they can create any kind of loophole to drain more money out of the people, that is an enviornment I will not be part of. I’m retired now and had been very successful here in New Mexico because it was an enviornemt that encouraged business not repress it. I’m not sure what dollar amount I had paid over the 28 years I’ve had the business but I assure you I had paid my fair share in taxes. I’m glad that I did not have to contribute my tax money to encourage such government leeches as you have in Colorado. I’m happy to have made the move to New Mexico instead of Colorado. Furthermore the idea of living in a state which allows these people to remain in office is a sad reflection on the people who live here.

]]> By: Director http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/2010/02/04/clear-the-bench-colorado-director-matt-arnold-testifies-against-unconstitutional-%e2%80%9cdoggy-bag-tax%e2%80%9d-enabled-by-colorado-supreme-court/comment-page-1/#comment-5862 Director Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:40:28 +0000 http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/?p=3448#comment-5862 David - the sales tax will be applied at the point of purchase - i.e. the restaurant buying the items from the wholesaler (which is itself somewhat unusual). The costs will be passed along to the consumer in the form of increased prices for ALL items sold (to cover the business cost). It is unsurprising that reading the text of the bill didn't make things any clearer - which is another problem with this proposed law. Application and enforcement of the "Doggy Bag" tax is almost certain to be confusing, capricious, and arbitrary - undermining the rule of law. Matt David -
the sales tax will be applied at the point of purchase - i.e. the restaurant buying the items from the wholesaler (which is itself somewhat unusual). The costs will be passed along to the consumer in the form of increased prices for ALL items sold (to cover the business cost).

It is unsurprising that reading the text of the bill didn’t make things any clearer - which is another problem with this proposed law. Application and enforcement of the “Doggy Bag” tax is almost certain to be confusing, capricious, and arbitrary - undermining the rule of law.

Matt

]]> By: David Henderson http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/2010/02/04/clear-the-bench-colorado-director-matt-arnold-testifies-against-unconstitutional-%e2%80%9cdoggy-bag-tax%e2%80%9d-enabled-by-colorado-supreme-court/comment-page-1/#comment-5843 David Henderson Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:50:14 +0000 http://www.clearthebenchcolorado.org/?p=3448#comment-5843 Since these items are "sold" to the customer for $0.00, I don't see how subjecting them to sales tax will give the state any extra money. Are they trying to make it a fee instead of a tax? Reading the text of the bill didn't make things any clearer, unfortunately. davidh Since these items are “sold” to the customer for $0.00, I don’t see how subjecting them to sales tax will give the state any extra money. Are they trying to make it a fee instead of a tax? Reading the text of the bill didn’t make things any clearer, unfortunately.

davidh

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