From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

We have a quasi national sales tax on selected items - gas, tires, airline
tickets, ammo, etc.  The govt prefers to call'em excise taxes and other
less inflammatory terms, but they're defacto sales taxes.

The tire tax is a real irritant - as I recall it was enacted during WWII
and was supposed to go away when it ended...yea right.

"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:23:25 -0500, James Adams
>  wrote:
>
> >> "If we take out Social Security, the poor will look very lightly
> >> taxed," said Robert S. McIntyre, of Citizens for Tax
Justice, a tax
> >> research group backed by organized labor.
> >
> >And if we then remove sales tax they would really look lightly taxed.
>
> We don't have sales tax.
>

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