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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1892577, member: 38849&quot;]<b>Sales tax</b> before 1857?&nbsp; No way.&nbsp; There would have been a second Revolution.&nbsp; Selective excise taxes on bulk purchases, maybe.&nbsp; But not requiring the half cent coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wikipedia:&nbsp; The first broad-based, general sales taxes in the United States were enacted by Kentucky and Mississippi in 1930, although Kentucky repealed its sales tax in 1936.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">edited</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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