Oct 31 2007
A Tax On Pumpkins?
This just in from the “you can’t make this up” category!
from the Cato-at-liberty blog:
Iowans planning to eat pumpkins can still get a tax exemption if they fill out a form.
This sounds like added bureaucracy, but Iowa taxpayers should be happy. By this time next year, the bureaucrats will decide that some people are falsely claiming that they are eating pumpkins in order to dodge the tax. So the new form will require families to send in photos of pumpkin pie. The following year, some bureaucrat will decide that some of the pies were actually bought in stores, so tax exemptions will only be allowed if a bureaucrat is invited over for dinner. I’m just kidding, of course. At least I think.
(Read the rest here.)
