http://danhperrycom.disqus.com/enWed, 01 Jul 2009 15:19:14 -0000http://danhperry.com/blog/2009/06/30/amazon-vs-north-carolina-greedy-state/#comment-11992042<p>The Carolinas are some of the greediest states I have ever been through. SC had a wheel tax in addition to a road tax, income tax, sales tax, property tax, pet tax, and an abundance of sin taxes. For all the taxes the place was still generally rather podump, underdeveloped and undereducated.</p><p>In general, sales tax is a scam. You pay taxes on your income, then you pay taxes on the remainder you spend. TN doesn't have an income tax, and this pushes the weight of state operations on sales tax. The consequence of this is people living hand to mouth will have their funds eroded by much needed consumables. On the other hand, people with high incomes will only pay more in taxes relative to the higher cost of name brands they may be able to afford. The demand for food, clothing, and toiletries doesn't go up with income, thus the frugal rich can get buy paying less taxes proportionally to their annual income by simply saving and/or re-investing money and not spending.</p>jsaWed, 01 Jul 2009 15:19:14 -0000