Let's see here: you buy the item and you get a sales tax. The money you used to purchase the item was taxed with multiple income taxes. We are now at tax number 3 or 4 already since most places have federal, state and local income tax. The shipping of the item is taxed as well as the gasoline used to ship the item to your house. On top of this all the insurance and priority shipping has additional fees for handling, etc.You decide to sell the item, and now the entire process can start al over again. That small 10$ item will now have been taxed up to 10 times over and generated more in taxes than it was ever worth
Let's see here: you buy the item and you get a sales tax. The money you used to purchase the item was taxed with multiple income taxes. We are now at tax number 3 or 4 already since most places have federal, state and local income tax. The shipping of the item is taxed as well as the gasoline used to ship the item to your house. On top of this all the insurance and priority shipping has additional fees for handling, etc.You decide to sell the item, and now the entire process can start al over again. That small 10$ item will now have been taxed up to 10 times over and generated more in taxes than it was ever worth
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