At 09:58 PM 8/28/2003 -0500, you wrote: >. The corolary: you are never too small to get whacked by a state >government that cant figure out how it's going broke, that has no property >tax or income tax to speak of, cant come by it's money honestly, upfront, >but has to force the small business people to do its dirty work for it, >and penalizes the poor folks who pay an incredible percentage of income in >sales tax on food, medicine, school supplies, clothes, piano work while >the oil company executives avoid it all by having major items purchased >out of state and shipped in. Sorry for the rant, but it is very fresh in >my mind..... >-- >----Dave That truly sucks. Oregon chose the other approach: high income tax, pretty high property tax, no sales tax or value-added tax of any kind -- except there's a 10% occupancy tax for motels. Our state is broke as well, but at least as a tuner I don't have to pour sweat into the paperwork. However, our approach means that all those tourists driving monster RVs essentially get a free ride through our state. A little bit of gas tax is all that the state gets from them. My condolences, Dave. Susan
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