Nothing like the 'free to not buy items' argument against a tax illegally levied by the government on most consumer goods. I think people are missing the fores

Nothing like the 'free to not buy items' argument against a tax illegally levied by the government on most consumer goods. I think people are missing the forest for the trees here and immediately defending a corporation reflexively. The point here is to try and recover money that was illegally gathered by the government. Costco offloaded the tax burden onto the consumers and now they can collect said taxes back from the government.