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On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 03:19:31 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 2:09:42 AM UTC-4, sf wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:26:04 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>>
>> > States that tax groceries (rate if not fully taxed): Alabama, Arkansas
>> > (3%), Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois (1%), Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri
>> > (1.225%), Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee (5.5%), Utah (1.75%),
>> > Virginia (1.5% + 1% local option tax), and West Virginia (5%).Jan 11, 2008

>>
>> Michigan gave up on taxing food? That's good. It was wonderful
>> moving to California, having more variety, better quality and no tax
>> on food.

>
>I think you'd find that we have quite a good variety and excellent
>quality nowadays, at least in urban meccas like Ann Arbor. Not so
>much in places where nobody wants to live anyway.


Those tend to be the places where I want to live. I'm lucky that few
people have such good taste.