[EternalVigilance]

Not enough information. What is the Cal tax base now, what will it be if your wet dream comes true, and what is the difference?

Don't know. Someone better start crunching the numbers, eh?

But there can be no doubt that if you add the service sector to the tax base, you have a broader-based tax, and can therefore lower the rate to obtain the same amount of revenue.

Right?

[expatpat]

Piggie apparently believes that the tax base would triple, i.e., there is twice as much money spent on services as on purchases of goods in Cal. Sounds delusional to me. Since you are supporting him in this, I assumed you had numbers to demonstrate. Apparently it's all snake-oil once again.