[norwaypinesavage]

"Here in FL sales tax is 7.5%. Payroll tax at present takes another 5.65%. So any employed person here is paying over 13.15% in taxes, no matter how little they make."

You can't add sales tax in because a large portion of money spent may not be charged sales taxes. Items like rent, mortgages, interest, utilities, and food and labor in most states, are not charged.

[Sherman Logan]

Good point. So we pay sales tax on a percentage of purchases, not all of them.