Topic: Daily Info
Let's play a game children. First, some assumptions. I'm assuming Minnesota's current 6.5% sales-tax (which currently is only on processed goods such as fast-food, DVD's, consumer electronics) will still be assessed. Also, I'll use a system similar to the IEEE floating point rounding standard. Now let's see what happens if there were a 23% national sales-tax.
Okay, say you want to buy a DVD which costs $19.99 before tax. Under the old system, you'd pay $21.29. With the new sales tax, you'd pay $25.89.
Or maybe you'd like to buy a new DVD player? Okay, assuming you buy one of those cheap numbers from WalMart, we're talking $69.95 before tax. So with the old tax, you'd pay $74.50. The new tax would make you pay $90.59. A little more illustrative, wouldn't you say?
Then, you can also forget tax-free textile products, which means no more tax-free clothing, which means the poor are even less able to get weather-appropriate clothing.
You do realize this only benefits the wealthy (and uber-wealthy) right? They buy more or less the same amount of stuff you do, maybe paying a dollar or so more per item (ignoring the high profile items). So instead of taking, I dunno, a flat 10% from their income (negating capital gains, which is where most wealth resides), you'll take about the same 23% from everyone on the same fixed spending level. So you and I, the middle-class and lower, shoulder the burden most heavily. An extra 23% on my spending budget is huge in relation to my income. An extra 23% on a spending budget for an income of $200,000 plus a year is nothing.
The rich get richer, the poor get fucked. Funny, if banning gay marriage was such a big issue, why hasn't there been any legislation on that yet? If any of you Republican-dweebles out there care to answer, I'd be interested to hear you illogical response. And be prepared to have you statement crushed under heavy logic, I've yet to encounter an argument from the right I couldn't refute six ways from Sunday.
I bring you the truth, and it is not pretty. I will not let you be deceived. Don't let them do this to you. Be informed, write letters, fill the halls of law, let your voice be known.