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If you sincerely want the legislature to tax you less, you should ask it to reduce or eliminate sales taxes on all retailers, not just on Amazon and not just on
by Agathos 15y ago
If you sincerely want the legislature to tax you less, you should ask it to reduce or eliminate sales taxes on all retailers, not just on Amazon and not just on online retailers. To grant an exemption to one company or to one industry, the legislature would have to decide which lucky company or industry deserves it. The government thereby picks a winner before the market gets a vote. When they try this, governments usually pick wrong.
- unshift 15y agoi agree on the overall sales tax issue (and in MA a year or two ago there was a ballot issue to eliminate it -- and for some reason beyond me, people voted to keep it). but if there's a loophole that lets me pay less, i'm going to take advantage of it and i'm not going to give the guys who closed it a pat on the back.
- bricestacey 15y agoThis is a reason towns exist on the NH border. it was shocking the first time I went. Cross the border and bam there are a dozen big box stores.