This Makes Income Tax Rates Look Like a Good Deal

In a letter to the editor in yesterday’s Times-Picayune, a taxpayer shared a discovery he made after he paid with a credit card for long-term airport parking fees instead of his usual cash.  I must admit — this is something I never checked out before, but now it’s really sticking in my craw.

The correspondent’s receipt printed out details of the basic fee plus all the “add-ons.”  Here is what he saw:

Parking Fee:  $100.00
Parking tax (WTF?!?!):  10%
Airport fee (WTF?!?!):   7%
Jefferson Parish sales tax:  4.75%
Louisiana sales tax:  4%

for a grand total of 25.75% in effective taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you kidding me?!?!

He concluded his letter by explaining that all the added-on taxes have now made it cheaper to pay for a family member’s gas to take him to and pick him up from the airport on future trips.  He’ll no longer be parking at the airport.

I hope the politicians are paying attention to this.  It’s a classic example of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.

Just call me Mother Goose, waddling on out of here.

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