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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1025487, member: 57463&quot;]<b>States (and Cities) Without Sales Tax?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Reading this through, I understand that there is <b>no sales tax in the state of Oregon</b>.&nbsp; In the states of Nevada and Georgia there is no sales tax on coins and bullion.&nbsp; Here, too, in Michigan, there is no sales tax on numismatics: coins, paper, bullion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ohio used to have no taxes when the dealers realized how much they were losing across the northern border.&nbsp; But that came -- and went -- with Toledo dealer and GOP stalwart Tom Noe&#039;s rise and fall (&quot;Coingate&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>New Hampshire has no sales tax</b>, according the the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article on state sales taxes here</a>, which is incomplete in its treatments.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>(In Ohio -- correct me -- if you eat in at McDonald&#039;s, it is taxed as a restaurant service, but if you take it out, it is considered &quot;groceries&quot; and is not taxed.&nbsp; I traveled a lot on business a few years ago.&nbsp; In North Carolina? or Kentucky? white t-shirts were necessities and not taxed, but t-shirts with printing were luxuries subject to sales tax.&nbsp; On the comparisons and contrasts with bars and liquor stores, alcohol is often specially regulated. In some states you can only buy it from a state retail store.&nbsp; Also consider gasoline at the pump: taxes included, not itemized on the receipt -- special regulations.) </p><p><br /></p><p><b>No sales tax in New Mexico.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A whole other discussion, but I want to go on record as being one of many who look at the production of shoes and computers and figure that everything the government does for &quot;free&quot; in return for taxes could be done better in a free market by businesses seeking profits.&nbsp; Although I believe that the market can also deliver superior quality at lower costs in protection and adjudication, with many years of political reading behind my new master&#039;s in social science, I understand and appreciate the viewpoint that a modicum of good laws, a minimal police presence, and a volunteer army all help make that free market possible.&nbsp; However we work that part out, the fact remains that schools, transportation, hospitals, parks and the rest are beyond the proper role of government.&nbsp; Just making a statement that I will not argue here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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