When I purchased todays sunday paper, $1.50, it cost me an additional eleven cents for state tax. On any such purchase I pay the same rate as anyone else.
Actually more than 33 cents of that $1.50 was due to Federal taxation and tax compliance costs embedded into the price itself.
Those are hidden taxes and not to be counted. Gubmint doesnt want you to realize that.
The direct 11 Cents was permission to buy. If we only knew the cost of government.