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Originally Posted by pl001
For the people that claim ignorance about not paying sales tax, are you also the ones who complain about your income and property taxes going up because you can't figure out where the shortfall came from?
And by the way, ignorance is no excuse. It's just ignorance.
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Economics is the study of how we apply limited resources (time, energy, natural resources, money) to unlimited wants. The problem with a shortfall is usually not a lack of resources, but rather the failure to recognize that not every want can be met, and that not every want should be met with government programs and expenditures. See Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson."
I would never use a government estimate of my use tax unless I knew what the actual amount would be. That's just stupid. It's like taking the standard deduction without knowing how much you could get by itemizing.
I don't feel particularly guilty about not paying sales tax on out-of-state sales. I don't see how the state should get anything for those products. It's their own fault for being so anti-business that it's cheaper to buy something from another state and have it shipped in. They don't see it that way, of course. It's all those evil business owners.