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To: combjelly who wrote (231242)	5/2/2005 3:04:46 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571903

"" Sales tax rates are high enough to provoke wholesale tax avoidance"" How is that supposed to work? We have about the same rate as California 8.25% in most places but can be as low as 6.25% if you buy in an unincorporated area where the county doesn't add for bridges. I have never heard of anybody expending much effort to avoid sales taxes. True, big car dealerships tend to be in areas where the sales taxes are lower, but that was true even before there was the patchwork scheme of sales taxes. Now true, we don't have a state income tax, the mere idea makes me itch, and that might make a difference. Now our property tax rate is higher than in California, but property values are a lot less too. Factor in that wages are a lot higher in California and one is led to the conclusion that they whine too much... I didn't get a number of issues in the guy's argument. As for sales tax avoidance.........it doesn't sound reasonable. Most counties in S. CA have about the same rate give or take 1-2 %tage points...........and traffic is so bad, I would think that trying to get from one county to the next is not worth the savings. Plus, LA County is about the size of Rhode Island. It took me nearly an hour of driving to get out of LA county when I was moving. Its hard to imagine that people would make similar drives on a regular basis to avoid a sale tax. ted