***The notion that it will be easier to hike a sales tax is nonsense. EVERYONE pays the sales tax. It is much easier to hike the income tax by selling it as a “Tax hike on the rich” then it will be to raise a sales tax.***
BING!BING!BING!
We have a winn-ah!
That’s exactly what stops it. The average Joe looking at his receipt won’t tolerate it going up - especially if they aren’t getting relief from gov’t rebates.
Sure, sales taxes don’t rise.... And that’s why sales taxes have crept up from a fraction of a percent to 8% and higher in various locations around the country.
True enough. Michigan has had the 6% sales tax since 1994 which is a very long time as such things go. Not too many legislators are dumb enough to raise a direct tax that the people will see immediately.