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gerisullivan.livejournal.com ([identity profile] gerisullivan.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] mishalak 2008-09-11 08:21 am (UTC)

Interesting. Thanks for the overview, and especially for the explanatory comments under "Amendment 51 - State Sales Tax for Services for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities". 'Cause in my first reading of that I gave that first "for" a value equivalent to "on" and I wondered just who the hell thinks charging sales tax on services provided to individuals with developmental disabilities is a good idea.

Laudable and needed as services for the developmentally disabled are, levying sales tax to fund them seems just plain bizarre to me. Next up, a sales tax to provide cancer treatments, a sales tax for services for the blind, for the elderly, etc. etc. etc. Yes, income and other taxes are the way to go, not earmarks from sales tax proceeds.

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