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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
... If you cook at home, you pay no tax on that food; if you eat out at a cheap joint, you pay some tax; if you eat at a fancy restaurant, you pay a lot of tax. If you buy clothes at a yard sale, you pay no sales tax; if you buy a $20 shirt at Sears, you pay some tax; if you buy a $700 shirt on Rodeo Road in Beverly Hills, you pay a lot of tax.
However one taxes them, print books and ebooks should be taxed alike.
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Using your examples you could say that they should not. Is an eBook 'fancier' than a paper one? That can be debated forever, I think, but the people who claim that it is fancier could therefore claim a higher tax is justified.