As you consider the County’s budget, I request that you repeal the 4% Meals Tax on restaurant food.  The following are my reasons.

The tax is unfair and unhealthy.  Restaurants prepare fresh food daily; grocery stores sell the same food in frozen, refrigerated, and dehydrated forms.  Restaurants like mine start with unadulterated raw ingredients; grocery foods, by necessity, contain chemical preservatives and stabilizers.  Cooks who live and pay taxes in the County prepare restaurant food; factory workers in faraway locations manufacture grocery food.