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Ron_Bueing's comments
Posted Wed, Feb 2, 3:24 p.m.
What troubles me most about these "tax expenditure" arguments is the basic assumption that a particular tax should apply to all transactions and any time it does not there is a tax expenditure. For example, the retail sales tax was not originally designed to tax services or to tax real ...
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