[Final Authority]

Sales taxes make it easy to tax, ie, confiscate property because it is easy to incrementalize. Say the government, our representatives, get a sales tax passed that is earmarked for 3% or so for SS or drugs. What is to say that once the infrastructure is in place that next year they make 3.5% and so on and so forth until a system of taxation is in place like NYNY or Massachusetts where every tax is raised but because they raise several taxes no one tax seems too much, for the politicians that is. I say that the base of taxation should be reduced not increased like we have in NH. There is a reason why NH is prosperous and it is not because of excessive taxation.

[CSM]

I would think that making the tax visible makes increasing taxes more difficult. But that is just me, the ever diligent persuer of knowledge and the teacher of the masses.........

I gotta go, but I hope to read this entire thread soon.