In a message dated 10/21/02 8:37:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << A sales tax does shift purchases; some purchases will shift to out-of-state mail-order or nontaxed services. (Virginia does have a use tax, but few pay it, as I recall.) Fred Foldvary >>
In Iowa I delighted in buying my books through Amazon.com instead of locally so that I could avoid the sales tax that country-clubbers had imposed on me and others to pay for their library and their bike trails while I couldn't afford to buy antibiotics for a dental infection. Now that I live in VA I plan to vote against the sales tax here. If it passes, well, I won't have trouble remembering the url to Amazon.com. <G> David
