anyway, getting back to a national sales tax........i live in the state of washington....no state income tax...........state gets it's income from consumer taxes, basically sales taxes. lots of exemptions. no tax on most food items ( candy is taxed, so is soda, some other stuff, you know, things considered non-essential) essentials used to be taxed, but when prices started going up in the late '70s, exemptions started popping up. now there are quite a few. washington is hardly flush with money, but we're not to the point of instituting a state income tax either. not even close. property values have gone up so much that real estate taxes have filled a huge void. basically, the renter that doesn't buy tons of frivolous stuff doesn't get heavily taxed in this state.
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12-31-2006, 04:48 AM
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