#sales tax

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated. ↗

— Joe Manchin

#food #now #reduced #sales #sales tax

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed. ↗

— Robert Strauss

#increase #sales #sales tax #tax #taxed

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#brick #burden #businesses #cannot #communities

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax. ↗

— Herman Cain

#because #breaks #business #code #dramatically

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#income tax #many #principle #rely #revenue

I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help. ↗

— Ann Robinson

#basic #care #citizen #cost #food

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. ↗

— Michael F. Easley

#cent #fast #grow #had #hoped

Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#bill #businesses #deduct #eastern #especially