The Stupid Crap Thread

wait wait wait...CARBONATION IN THE SODA?!? What the Thats insane!

Stupid crap during the day, I think I can come up with some:

Wait, i cant! Could this have been a day where no one did anything stupid??? IT CANT BE!

 

thats just plain retarded. they must be pocketing the extra change after every customer. i would.

 

Sales tax on a purchase, would be imposed by the State. George W, is responsobile for many of problems, but I do not think you can blame this one one him.

 

Well in my state you pay tax on any food purchase her or to go, in many areas you will actually pay a food tax for "prepared foods" so if you eat in a restuarant you pay an extra 1% on top of the 5% sales tax already in place.

 

I did the same thing... ordered two things on the dollar menu to go. But I didn't order a drink because I had Starbucks. So was there tax for the salt on my fries? Pickels on my bun? Sheesh I hate McDonalds (I was also in WalMart... a Supercenter).

 

My biggest peeve, is the tax as high as 15.6% on motel stays (some areas in Washington), then going to breakfast and paying tax on the meal.

 

I can remember, hmmm lets see, 17 years ago, going to McDonalds with exact change and not being able to get my value meal due to the "carbonation tax." Unless it's one of those urban myths, I'd say it's been around for some time.

 

We all just need to start eating at good old jack in the box!

 

Hey, i finally have some stupid crap!

Here i am, sitting in our hotel room in Towson, MD. I am trying for hours to get this stupid old laptop to work. Everything seems to be configured correctly. I FINALLY take a look at this little box the hotel provides you with to connect to their broadband to see if thats the issue. THE DAMN BOX IS CONNECTED TO ITSELF! The last person who used it, decided it would be fun to unhook it from the wall, and plug the out wire, back into line in! AHH!


Then i finally get Internet Explorer working, and AIM goes down all night! Now that is some stupid crap!

 

As far as taxes being stupid my favorite is the Federal Telecom Excise tax that hit every bill from wireless to landline..it's about 3-3 1/2 percent that was started to fund the Spanish American war.

Last I heard we had that war paid for along time ago, but yet that tax is still on the books.

 

Are you kidding me? I always like seeing weird, old laws and stuff like that, that are still on the books. Like in some state or another if you spit on the sidewalk you have to do time in jail, it's illegal to leave your horse tied to a lamp post on a public walkway, stuff like that.

 

Next time, find the same girl and order water. See if the same tax applies. I'd love to see the look on her face

 

I kinda still think it stupid how they tax cellphone users for an emergency tax even if we don't call 911 in our time using the cellphone.

 

We have a 6.5% sales tax imposed by the State Legislature and an 0.5% tax imposed by Forsyth County for a total of 7% tax on a regular sale. Prepared food (i.e. restaurants) comes under the standard sales tax, while grocery store items come under a 2% tax and are subject to neither the State tax nor the County tax.

You always have paid tax in restaurants. They just include the tax in the prices on the menu.

 

I would rather pay the $0.50 or whatever and have the ability to dial 911 if I need to, than not pay it and if I need emergency service not be able to get ahold of 911. (Although, more than likely if I need 911 I will probably be out in the middle of nowhere and there would be no way I could get signal on my cell phone anyway.)

 

Around here you pay 8.25% tax (soon to be 9.25%) on absolutely everything, whether it's eaten in or out. So when I went back to Jersey, first of all I forgot that doubling the tax doesn't work for a tip (you actually have to basically triple it), and that clothes and takeaway food are not taxed... and then just when I'd got it figured out we went to dinner in Perth Amboy, which has 3% tax because it's a hellish ghetto and they're trying to get Minivan Mom to shop there again.

It could be worse, Delta. When I was staying in Montréal I paid 7% national tax (GST in English, TPS in French) on all my purchases, and then paid 7.5% provincial tax (QST/TVQ) on the entire amount INCLUDING the TPS! So it's a double taxation, instead of 14.5% it's actually 15.025%.

Sales tricheurs, que leurs citoyens les fassent mourir à coups de marteau. Quand je serai le roi, ils seront vite collés contre le mur.

 

Are you aware that you are entitled to recoup some of the taxes you paid in Montreal, as long as you are not a Canadian citizen, & you are not living in Canada.

The only catch is you have to spend $50 before tax & each merchant, & an aggregate of $200. All you need to do is to pick up a special tax form at the airport in Montreal. I know this because my wife is from there, & we go there just about every other year. The American Dollar reigns supreme there. I goes shopping there whenever I can since I can get a good tax reimbursement on most of my purchases...

 

In Pennsylvania necessities are not taxed. Food, clothes, etc. I think if you eat out the food is taxed but not food at a grocery store.

 

Another taxing thing I hate is how here in Arizona tax is between 8.3% - 8.8% and in Massachusetts it's only 5% (these are sales taxes)... yet Massachusetts taxes everything else possible which is why my father hates living there .

 

Yes, you can get a refund of tax at the American border, at the Douanes Canada booth on the -3 level of the Centre Eaton, and at Mirabel and Dorval airports. However, only lodging and goods that you are removing from Canada (which you must prove) are eligible. Food is not.

And while the American dollar is worth more, it is always amazing to me, every time I go to Canada which is once or twice a year, that there's always some stupid American trying to pay at, say, Tim Hortons with American cash. Last year in Charlottetown we were at Province House and this American woman had paid with a travellers' cheque drawn in American dollars and wanted American change back. The functionary at the gift shop cash desk kept saying, "But we don't have American money, we're not allowed to give American money as change even if we had any, this is Canada!"

The American woman kept arguing and saying that the functionary was trying to cheat her, since she was due USD$0.42 in change and the woman was trying to give her CDN$0.62. It went on for ten minutes before I finally threw an American dollar at the stupid woman and said, "Here's a dollar, get the ***k out and go back to Texas."

In Vancouver we had the people who wouldn't accept loonies and twonies. "No, we need paper dollar bills, we don't want to carry around all that change!" ("Dude, the $1 bill was taken away in the 80s and the $2 bill was taken away in 1996. Time to move into the present.")

And just over the border from Vermont on the way to my relatives in Repentigny, there was the man who kept insisting that he had to have a 20-oz. Coke, he knew how much to count that as for his diet, didn't they have anything except 600 mL bottles? (20 ounces, BTW, is 591 mL., and now they've started selling 591 mL bottles in Canada. I wonder what he would have made of the fact that soda in Canada is made with sugar because corn syrup is not considered fit for human consumption unless it's cooked?)

 

Sales tax in TN is quite bad. It's 9.5% here. It kind of equals out though if you consider that Tennessee has no state income tax though. We only have to file federal

 

Florida's sales tax was something like 5% and no income tax. That was nice. Now I get to pay Federal, state, and city income tax plus sales tax. I think Ohio has one of the highest, if not the highest, tax burdens in the nation.

 

7.3% or so in Kansas for sales tax. Cigarettes & Liquor are, of course, taxed more.