Sales Tax hoilday

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Social media. I'm all over the place, just Chuck Douglas
on the Facebook. There's also an official Chuck Douglas Radio
show fan page if you want to like that. Twitter,
it's Chuck D Talker. Instagram. I think it's Chuck d
Talker as well. Truth Social. I can't remember CD talk

(00:21):
I don't remember. We just talk about CDs basically, Yeah,
just how CDs are better than eight tracks. It's what
I do out there. I don't get on truth Social
too much just because nobody else does. Really, It's just
you know, people in the Trump administration won't jump on there.
But it's not nearly as interactive as I want it

(00:42):
to be, So I don't get on there a lot,
but just you know, run my name through there. Email
Chuck Douglas at iHeartMedia dot com. There you go. So,
as I'm ranting and raving about the two hundred thousand
dollars house all Legner Avenue, and I was looking at

(01:03):
some of the pictures, this also equates to exactly what
I was saying the other day about these infill houses
as they call them, that they put up completely. They
don't look at all like the neighborhoods. They don't materially
conform with the neighborhoods. You've got brick homes, you've got
stone homes. Then you've got these tivek wrapped vinyl sided

(01:26):
homes that you know, look like they belong in a
freestanding condo development and Galloway more so than they belong
in an historic neighborhood. You're not doing any favors for
the historic neighborhood putting that in there and charging that
kind of money to live there. It just I'm sorry,

(01:49):
it ain't helpful. So let me move on to the
sales tax holiday, which begins tomorrow. Are you do you
have Are you waking up at like six am for
sales tax holiday shopping? No? I've never in any way,
shape or form, but I can tell that you are
very excited about it. Absolutely absolutely. Hang on a second,
there it was, that was my excitement. There was. It's

(02:11):
longer this year. First of all, it was only ten
days last year. It's two weeks. This time. Starts tomorrow
and actually at tonight, if you want to be technical,
at midnight, So if you want to go out shopping
at twelve oh one, you get the sales tax breaks
and it runs through eleven fifty nine pm on August fourteenth.

(02:33):
Now here's my problem with it. This started off as
a relatively good idea to try to help families with
purchasing school clothes, uniforms, supplies, you know, lunchboxes, new pair
of shoes, even when they had haircuts and things like
that in there to get the kids started. I was

(02:53):
good with that. I was good. However, according to the
Ohio Department of Taxation, the same sales tax holiday includes
all tangible property I'm sorry, tangible personal property that is
five hundred dollars or less. Not score oriented, not kid oriented.
All tangible property five hundred dollars or less. This includes

(03:21):
items such as electronics and the clothing, home goods. I
could see that. I guess, dine in food. Think about this.
You can take the family out, you know, run by roosters,

(03:41):
and you know, drop a couple of hundred bucks and
not have to pay the sales tax dining in dine
in food. They're considering that personable or personal tangible property
with a value up to five hundred dollars or less.
I don't get it. Dietary supplements, Okay, I don't know.

(04:05):
Are we talking about Flintstone vitamins ten million strong and going.
Or are we talking about I don't know, herbal libido enhancers.
What kind of dietary supplements there shouldn't be odd because
those don't work. Pets food because you know the dogs

(04:26):
and the cats are headed back to school this year.
They have to learn too. Learning. It's not just for
people toys oddly school and off of supplies sports equipment.
I can see that. I guess ther kids are in
sports luggage, what backpacks or this beautiful set from Samsonite

(04:55):
musical instruments, personal care products and hang your hats. Hang
onto your hats. After the discussion we just had about
eliminating sugary stuff from food stamp benefits and not letting
food stamp recipients buy sugary drinks for their kids, hang
onto your hats for the last category in the tax

(05:18):
free holiday in the state of Ohio, soft drinks. I'm
going to sit momentarily in silence while you just allow
your mind to allow its mouth to hang open. How
is it we are having a conversation about people being

(05:42):
regulated when it comes to what they can buy with
their food stamp snap ebt stuff saying that they should
only buy a wholesome, healthy products and then we do
a tax free holiday on soft drinks. How is that logical? Zach,

(06:03):
help me, help me to see this vein on the
right side of my head. You see what it's doing.
Help me understand, I mean, Senator Hoffman can help you
because I can't. Hung up on me last night is
what he did. No, we texted today. He just he
thought I was done. He didn't because I was going

(06:24):
into news there and he didn't think I was coming back.
Sales tax holiday does not include tangible person or property
over five hundred dollars. Doesn't include motor vehicles, alcoholic beverages. Well, why,
I mean you what if the kids want to do
a little drinking between classes? It doesn't apply to the booze,
really does, doesn't apply very lou you want a beard,

(06:52):
it's tax free. Doesn't apply to tobacco, vapor products, or
items that contain marijuana. Okay again back to school, no marijuana.
Really for more information to see what qualifies for the
sales tax holiday, there is indeed a website for which

(07:13):
you have paid. By the way, the Ohio Department of
Taxation has a website for that. So if you just
go in and google Ohio Sales Tax Holiday. It'll take
you to the Ohio dot gov website and you can see.
I'm sorry, this is stupid. It's not that I want
to give any more money in sales tax away than

(07:36):
I have to because I don't like sales. Sales taxes
are right below property taxes. As far as stuff I
hate when it comes to taxes, I've been very I
hate property taxes. I hate buying something and then having
to pay for the right to own it for the
rest of my life. That's crazy. That's crazy. I'm also

(07:56):
not fond of sales taxes. Look, I'm doing business with
this company. This company's making money. You charge this company
at tax based on the amount of money that they make.
Why should I then also have to pay a second
tax on the product I'm buying from them? Think about that.
If I'm buying an item from the Zach Store for

(08:21):
ten bucks, I gotta pay ten dollars and eighty cents
for it because of sales tax. So the government's getting
paid because I'm buying something from the Zach Store. But
then Zach Store made ten dollars, so Zach Store is
about to pay income tax on the ten dollars that

(08:43):
it just made selling me. So they're taxing it because
I'm buying it, and they're taxing it because Zach Store
sold it. Does that make sense that that's stupid, But again,
we live with it every day we go. You'll all
play your sales tax This is dumb. We allow ourselves

(09:06):
to be taxed for and don't we don't even know
why we're being taxed. We don't know what we're paying for.
Sales taxes eight percent in Franklin County, Okay, what's that
paid for? We don't ask that, just sales taxes eight percent?
Thank you. You make money with your money. You got
to pay taxes on the money you make with your money.

(09:30):
You paid income tax on the money what was left over.
You used it to make money, So then you have
to pay money on the money that you made with
the money you were able to keep after you paid
the taxes on the money in the first place. Then
if you die and you got some money left over,

(09:52):
after the funeral calls, you say, I leave this money
for which I have already you worked and paid taxes
to my buddy Zach, and here's your money, Zach. And
then Hello, Zach, We're from the Tax Administration office. You
inherited some money that taxes have already been paid on.

(10:14):
We need you to pay some taxes on that. It
never ends, It never becomes yours. Your money ain't yours,
your property, angels, nothing's yours. We gladly do it, and
then they do something stupid like this, so we act
like they're giving us a gift. Is the Zach Store? Okay?

(10:36):
With that? Do you mind paying double taxes? Had nothing
I could do about it, so I'm paying it. I'll
pass the cost on to you somehow. Well, no, see,
that's just it. It's an endless cycle. You can't really
pass the cost on to me. Yeah, I know. It's
just because if you pass the cost, you take that
ten dollars iron becomes a fifteen dollar item right now,

(10:57):
Suddenly it's what's fifteen ten percent? My gosh, eight percent
of fifteen dollars I've got to pay in sales tax
for buying that item. So I'm buying the item from
you and paying that fifteen percent. Then you are going
to pay the tax on the money you made selling
me the fifteen dollars item. You can never really pass
it along because now you're paying more in taxes because

(11:19):
you made more money because you sold it for fifteen
instead of ten. I'm paying more in taxes because I
paid or paid for item, the sales tax on an
item because I bought it for fifteen instead of for ten.
There's no weight. The deck is completely stacked against us.
Loop it never. You can't get away from it. You can't.
And again we see stuff like this and we act

(11:42):
like we're being given a gift and we're not. We're not,
especially when you look on the return on investment. Here,
same logic that I applied to school systems asking for
you know, pass this levee. No, you can't pass a student,
and we're not passing any more levees. Graduates down, attendance
is down, populations down. You want to know, no more levees.

(12:05):
By the way, congratulations to was it big Walnut? I
was reading about that They their budget went well, they
didn't spend the money they thought, and so they're not
charging any activity fees, no sports. If you're playing football
or basketball or whatever. They say, hey, we're giving this
back to the families. All about that and Pickerington, Pickerington's
going through all kinds of silliness right now because they

(12:26):
wanted to put a levee on the ballot that was
discussed out there the board. The board is represented by
three Republicans to Democrats, and now there are calls for
a one party system. I guess because it's consistently and no,
they had two levee options. The board vote was against
both of them. Were not going to ask for a levee.

(12:46):
And people are saying, well, let's partisan is what it is.
So we need more Democrats. We have to have the
artificially artificially outnumber the Republican votes. Wow, because they want
your money. And in the meantime, we want to talk
about food stamp beneficiaries not being able to buy sugary

(13:07):
drinks with their food stamp card while at the same
time having soft drinks on the tax free two week
back to school shopping list. We are messed up. Just
say it. I got nothing else on this. I can't,

(13:28):
I can't, I can't say anymore. I can't continue to
state the obvious. If you disagree with me, there's nothing
I can do to change your mind. And you're wrong
that I submit those two things. The only time you're
like I can't do it this time. I just can't.
I'm telling you. You said you would hear me out.

(13:51):
Oh I said that usually You're like, I'll hear you out.
There's no There's no possible way anybody can say anything
in opposition to what I just said about this that
would make sense. But I made sense. That's something completely
I'm not trying to be arrogant. I seriously am not.
I'm stating what I consider to be the obvious here.

(14:13):
If you are in disagreement with me about the ridiculousness
of this way they're they're managing the sales tax holiday
and taxes in general, there's no way I can ever
ever agree with you. It just seems to me like
capitalism needs an overhaul, while I'm hearing accountability needs an overhaul.

(14:39):
We're just, like I said, we're allowing too much stuff
to happen without question, and they say give it, and
we okay, Well, you're the government. I guess we got
to give it.