Labor, not a sale (WAS job invoices?)

[Susan Kline]

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