When can voters pass a 50 cents Maximum Sales Tax initiative?

With so many shoppers going to the web to avoid sales tax, our state businesses need to remain competitive.

Let us limit sales tax to a maximum fee of 50 cents per purchase. Obviously, you will continue to pay the 8.2% sales tax if you just buy a pack of chewing gum (just as long as the maximum sales tax per purchase is 50 cents).

-- No Mail (nomail@nomail.com), December 31, 1999

Answers

Who writes your stuff for you? This is really funny.

-- dbvz (dbvz@wa.freei.net), December 31, 1999.

Your suggestion has merit. I think business would go along with it because you'd have to buy more at the one place so as to avoid the high tax on just one item. Looking a little closer, I see you only want the 8.2 percent up to about $6. and then just the 50 cent tax. I think my idea of just a 50 cent tax (per single purchase) on anything would go over better with the people in Olympia. Obviously, some one had to elect them, so apparently there is a reason for them being there.

-- Sig Landoe (slandoe@bentonrea.com), January 02, 2000.