Beats the heck out of me. But sales tax, at least in the beginning, was a way to generate state revenue for the sale of new items. It had no baring for private

Beats the heck out of me. But sales tax, at least in the beginning, was a way to generate state revenue for the sale of new items. It had no baring for private sales between two persons for a used item which already had its tax paid when it was originally bought.