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bill: time time to track your taxes. a lot of illiteration. and states are looking for ways to squeeze in more revenue tanksings the soda you drink to the pet you walk in the morning and anita vogel is live in l.a., tell us, what is the most surprising hidden tax you have discovered. reporter: oh, boy, that is a really tough one, bill. i mean, you know, states across the country are broke and are raising taxes and fees on everything including the kitchen sink this time, and pretty much everything in front of me is under consideration for a tax or already being taxed, a lot of surprising things, how about blueberries? blueberries are taxed in maine and that is kind of awful, blueberries are good for you and west virginia they are taxing noise makers, i mean, i m not sure what the logic is behind that one and here in california, they want to tax proposing a tax on soda and every extra spoonful of sugar that would go into the soda would raise the
soda an extra cent, and now critics say they know states are broke but they say this is a way for lawmakers to get around the word, use sales tax. bill: i see. . fees are a way to get around that, people have an antipathy to taxes, and that is a way to avoid being called a tax-raiser and one way is not to raise taxes and the other is to call things nontaxes and call them fees. reporter: yeah, and that is what a lot of states are calling these things, fees. and here in california, this one would actually raise a lot of money, they talk about raising 1.5 billion dollars a year for the state and, the golden state, has been broke lately and, so, you know, lawmakers will try and persuade the legislature with that one. bill: 1.5 billion on the soda tax? is that what you are saying. reporter: yes. bill: sacramento doesn t have a sense of humor if they tax your noise makers and what about the
blueberries, in west virginia they re actually taxing noise makers. and in washington state the governor there is getting ready or is willing to sign a bill that would triple the tax on your favorite six pack of beer. that s not going to go over well with too many people. critics say they understand the need to raise money, but this is kind of ridiculous. listen. when we start moving away from a system that taxes everything the same, when we start saying, well, candy should be taxed but regular food shouldn t, or prepared food should be taxed but groceries should not. you introduce the requirement to start defining the differences between these things, and they can get pretty absurd. reporter: and, jon, talk about absurd. okay, we ve got two candies here, right? 2006 and snickers. the state of illinois is taxing one of these. any thoughts on which one? jon: i m going to guess it s the twix because it doesn t have the peanuts? very close. it s the twix, but it s because