Klarinet Archive - Posting 000476.txt from 1999/07

From: CEField@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Artist quality instruments from local stores
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:50:11 -0400

In a message dated 7/16/99 2:09:41 PM, rbushidioglot@-----.net writes:

<<Someone, somehow
has to pay taxes for services expected. What will we do when "Main Street" is
all boarded up and we don't have money for schools, libraries, street cleaning
and everything else? We will all be charged---somehow and some way. The social
interaction of our communities will also change. It might come to a point
where
all that will be down town will be drive through fast food places.>>

I suspect that the U.S. will move toward a national sales tax, which could
level the playing field somewhat for e-commerce and brick-and-mortar music
retailers.

By the way, in New England the services you mention are supported by local
PROPERTY taxes and not by the sales tax. The traditional music store actually
gets hit with a double whammy: it has to collect sales tax from customers AND
it has to pay property tax on its real estate.

[Fortunately, in RI, we are (I think) phasing out the tax on business
inventory so that will be moot in the years to come.]

Cindy

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