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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:white'>I don't
use tobacco, haven't for 25 years, but adding $2 per pack tax bothers me. It hits
those who can least afford it the hardest. Double the tax on yachts and I won't
quibble, but get rid of taxes on products the poor purchase.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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occupymendocino-bounces@lists.mcn.org
[mailto:occupymendocino-bounces@lists.mcn.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Richard Karch<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, May 23, 2016 3:08 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Occupymendocino]
Rising-inequality-creates-a-new-poor-people-tax-at-the-grocery-store<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/05/20/1528889/-Rising-inequality-creates-a-new-poor-people-tax-at-the-grocery-store?detail=email&link_id=19&can_id=977dbddaeb03416d8c9bff93998b05cd&source=email-donald-trumpa-psychiatrists-opinion-and-concerns&email_referrer=donald-trumpa-psychiatrists-opinion-and-concerns&email_subject=donald-trump-a-psychiatrists-opinion-and-concerns">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/05/20/1528889/-Rising-inequality-creates-a-new-poor-people-tax-at-the-grocery-store?detail=email&link_id=19&can_id=977dbddaeb03416d8c9bff93998b05cd&source=email-donald-trumpa-psychiatrists-opinion-and-concerns&email_referrer=donald-trumpa-psychiatrists-opinion-and-concerns&email_subject=donald-trump-a-psychiatrists-opinion-and-concerns</a></span></font></span><font
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<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Poor
people get hit with higher prices on basic purchases because they often live in
neighborhoods without supermarkets and have to pay convenience store prices—or
because they can’t afford to take advantage of sales and stock up on discounted
products. It’s pretty well-known that these are ways it’s expensive to be
poor (by people who care to know, at least, as Republicans seem well
able to stay ignorant). But a Harvard graduate student’s research finds that <a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/20/the-poor-pay-more-for-everyday-purchases-and-its-getting-worse-a-new-study-warns/"
target="_blank" title="">the premium poor people pay</a> on everyday retail
goods goes still further. Xavier Jaravel:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>… has found
that prices are increasing by more than 2 percent a year on
average for goods purchased by consumers with household incomes under
$30,000, but by just 1.4 percent annually for those with incomes above
$100,000. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Why would
that be? According to Jaravel, it starts with the fact that we all might buy
the same basic category of product, but we don’t all buy the exact same thing.
Higher-income people buy premium brands, and Jaravel:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>… found
that relatively few new products made it into stores that weren't premium
goods. In other words, poorer consumers were more likely to be buying the same
products from year to the next.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>When a new product
arrives on shelves, retailers typically have to discount the price of
older products ...</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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