I'm NOT OK with this. In fact I'm NOT OK with sales taxes at all. I grew up in supposedly high tax NY State with ZERO sales tax. We had roads, schools, police, etc. In fact I doubt that the people who now live in the house I grew up in get a single government "service" that my family didn't get. In many cases State Governments "profit" more from the sale of an item than does the company that produced that item. This is OBSCENE.
In addition, back then (50s & 60s) NY State didn't receive any money from the Federal Government. (Nixon started this with "revenue sharing." Now these payments are called "block grants, " but they are effectively the same thing.)
(FTR, Sales Tax began in NY State on August 1, 1965. Before that NYC had a 3% Sales Tax.)
ML/NJ
You both make really good points.
Sales tax where I live is ten cents on the dollar. They can never suck enough of our money for this damnable government, and most of us don’t get much in direct benefits coming back our way.