Finally. I’ve been banging on about this for a decade. Why are poor people getting slugged with 10% tax for life essentials?
This is great!
This sounds like a good idea
This is an excellent idea. Groceries other than prepared foods in California (well, at least Los Angeles) are handled this way. Makes a lot of sense.
Whats the caveat?
Yes please, and no tarrifs on rice and fruit next
Where I come from (Texas) they do not tax essential food items. One of the few things I actually support about the Texas government.
Noice. Will it cover restaurant meals too? Want to do the Nishiwaseda ramen rally later this year and get all the restaurants this time.
As a Japanese person, I wanted to share my thoughts on this.
Right now in Japan, there are two major proposals being discussed before the upcoming elections:
1. Reduce the consumption tax (like this proposal for 0% tax on food)
2. Give out a one-time cash payment to all citizens
To me, giving cash payments is just borrowing more from the future—it’s essentially debt being pushed to the next generations, which already happens too often in Japan. That will just accelerate our long-term collapse.
So in my opinion, reducing consumption tax is the only ethical and sustainable option.
Especially for food—it’s a basic necessity. Consumption tax is flat, meaning poor people feel its burden far more. Japan’s tax system and poverty policies are, honestly, not functioning properly anymore.
I’m just now realizing food is taxed in Japan. I am from California and I just thought it was normal. Nope. Prepared hot foods are in California.
As a non voting, tax paying resident I am behind this.
If anyone here has questions about Japan’s current political or economic situation, feel free to ask me anything.
I’m originally from Japan and I’ve been deeply studying the system from the inside.
Honestly, I might understand today’s Japan more clearly than most people still living there.
And yeah—I know it’s kind of unusual for someone living outside of Japan to care this much about Japanese tax policy…
But that might be exactly why I’m able to see it all more clearly.
This is seriously a
“Huh… I don’t even know how to feel about this right now”
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Finally. I’ve been banging on about this for a decade. Why are poor people getting slugged with 10% tax for life essentials?
This is great!
This sounds like a good idea
This is an excellent idea. Groceries other than prepared foods in California (well, at least Los Angeles) are handled this way. Makes a lot of sense.
Whats the caveat?
Yes please, and no tarrifs on rice and fruit next
Where I come from (Texas) they do not tax essential food items. One of the few things I actually support about the Texas government.
Noice. Will it cover restaurant meals too? Want to do the Nishiwaseda ramen rally later this year and get all the restaurants this time.
As a Japanese person, I wanted to share my thoughts on this.
Right now in Japan, there are two major proposals being discussed before the upcoming elections:
1. Reduce the consumption tax (like this proposal for 0% tax on food)
2. Give out a one-time cash payment to all citizens
To me, giving cash payments is just borrowing more from the future—it’s essentially debt being pushed to the next generations, which already happens too often in Japan. That will just accelerate our long-term collapse.
So in my opinion, reducing consumption tax is the only ethical and sustainable option.
Especially for food—it’s a basic necessity. Consumption tax is flat, meaning poor people feel its burden far more. Japan’s tax system and poverty policies are, honestly, not functioning properly anymore.
I’m just now realizing food is taxed in Japan. I am from California and I just thought it was normal. Nope. Prepared hot foods are in California.
As a non voting, tax paying resident I am behind this.
If anyone here has questions about Japan’s current political or economic situation, feel free to ask me anything.
I’m originally from Japan and I’ve been deeply studying the system from the inside.
Honestly, I might understand today’s Japan more clearly than most people still living there.
And yeah—I know it’s kind of unusual for someone living outside of Japan to care this much about Japanese tax policy…
But that might be exactly why I’m able to see it all more clearly.
This is seriously a
“Huh… I don’t even know how to feel about this right now”
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