[xzins]

Sales taxes are not destructive UNLESS they are used in addition to income taxes, property taxes, luxury taxes, fees, assessments, etc.

If they were the SOLE tax instrument, they'd be fair.

[SolidSupplySide]

Sales taxes are not destructive UNLESS they are used in addition to income taxes, property taxes, luxury taxes, fees, assessments, etc.

This argument is not intended to be intellectually honest, is it? Are you really saying that the yacht industry would not have been affected by the sales tax if there were no income taxes?