Damn you, Michael Bloomberg! August 31, 2005 ~ 2:44 pm
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , trackback
I’m marking the end of summer with a photo from the beginning of it: unless I’m mistaken, that’s Coney Island’s “mayor” Dick Zigun playing the drum at the 2005 Mermaid Parade.
New York City has some great institutions…and I’m not talking about the museums, the theaters, the colleges, or anything on Wall Street. I’m talking about traditions that have become New York institutions. The Mermaid Parade is one of them. Tax-Free Week is another.
Every year, to celebrate the fact that we pay through the nose on anything we buy here, we get a tax-free week on clothing. In effect, as long as the clothing costs less than $110, we get to buy it tax-free, without adding that 8.625%.
I, of course, have no freaking debit card this week, and you can’t write checks here with out-of-state IDs. And you want to know what the kicker is? Apparently YARN is tax-free this week, too, since you can use it to make clothes. Fuuuuuuuuuck.
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