candy taxes

According to a piece at IllinoisPolicy.org, Illinois shoppers will pay higher taxes depending on the type of candy they choose for trick-or-treaters, sometimes at least six times higher taxes for some brands.

I don't know how you run things at your house during Halloween season, but at our place, my wife Amy is in charge of allocating Halloween candy. Amy has a candy-buying rule that she lives by, and that is she'll only buy Halloween candy that we like.