It looks like Utah legislature is trying to tax caffeine now. Like they don't get enough revenue from alcohol? It's so expensive and hard to get that many people choose to go over the border to Idaho or Wyoming to purchase alcohol. Unfortunately, that is illegal. So the police stake out the highway and try to catch people who've gone over the border and back in a relatively short amount of time and fine them huge amounts of $. I guess next we'll have people going across the border just for coffee!!!
Only in Utah do the coffeehouses have "hoodlums and punks" as regular clientele! Forget the bars--they hang out in the coffeehouse parking lots with their motorcycles and dogs and tattooes. .It's quite unusual. Terry and I loved walking to the local Grounds for Coffee and being around other "gentiles." The kids, too.
Ironically, the state liquor store (the only place from which liquor and wine could be legally purchased) was rather upscale. Probably because alcohol cost so much! They even had lollipops for the kids when I brought them in to grab a bottle of wine!
In Massachusetts they were thinking of taxing junk food and sugar laden drinks (ie soda.) It was going to be called a "health tax." I don't think it's going anywhere. Luckily I don't eat or drink any of that! :)
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