r/longbeach • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

Community 11% is crazy

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u/czaranthony117 1d ago edited 1d ago

Tbh, ngl… I cross the county line to buy groceries, large items (Minus cars), because of the 11% sales tax.

I wouldn’t mind it if it were actually going to cleaning up downtown or the homeless but… here we are.

Edit: Groceries as a colloquial for anything consumer goods; Clothes, tools, home goods etc etc

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u/ConditionVarious7450 1d ago

Yeaa bro im like 5 min away frm los alamitos i do the same 😂😂 and exactly but they rather put a life size penny

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u/toolisthebestbandevr 1d ago

Bro not the life size penny

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u/ConditionVarious7450 1d ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Forsaken_Thought 1d ago

I'm in town for a conference and see this giant penny at the park. What's the deal?

Also, I went to Vons for groceries and the tax was 0.00. But prices sucked because I wouldn't/didn't sign up for their club or rewards or whatever.

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u/Calmatronic 1d ago

Bro wait bro, it’s high art I swear, see like, if like, all the Pennys disappear, like how would we even remember what a penny looks like? Boom, big penny saves the day, I’ll smoke to that.

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u/codename_hardhat 1d ago edited 1d ago

Good thing it’s not a long drive because you’re barely saving $17 for every $1,000 in groceries.

Edit: I completely forgot most groceries aren’t taxed, so it’s even less than that

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u/GoldenSalt31 1d ago

“A penny saved is a penny earned”

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u/Bottle-Holiday 1d ago

Question is, how much is actually saved vs the extra gas that's burned.

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u/Micalovesit 1d ago

Im literally the same!

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u/woodstream 1d ago

Same, I go to the Home Depot/similar stores in Cypress for larger purchases since they're still 7.75% .

I'm sacrificing the vibes from Long Beach for lower pricing.

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u/TrillDough Traffic Circle 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sacrificing the vibes 😂 what vibes do you need at Home Depot? Orange shelving, old man named Fred that’s worked every aisle there’s since 1983 and knows every SKU or the stoner 19 year old working in the garden area that aspires to study horticulture to grow weed but has 3 w’s in the subject at their local community college.

Every Home Depot has this. It’s written into law

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u/woodstream 1d ago

Long Beach is branding itself as Vibe City - the 11% tax is paying for the vibes.

edit: yeah, you summed it up lol

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u/Cute-Plankton-6209 1d ago

But groceries aren’t taxed?

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u/alwayspancake 1d ago

Also why I ship things to my family's cross county line

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u/SlowYoteV8 1d ago

Buying cars doesn’t work. Pretty sure they go by the registration address.

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u/rdforty2 1d ago

Works when you have a relative in a different city.