Toilet Paper Sales Tax

States must have money to pay their operating costs. Most of those expenses are paid by workers who send in a part of their wages to the state annually. But there are many low income wage earners that cannot afford state payroll taxes and they are given an exemption.

It is outrageous to have a minimum wage worker being forced to pay a sales tax on soap and toilet paper. Having to go to work smelly and dirty unless that tax is paid sounds like extortion. This law must be abolished at once. The state claims that they cannot provide proper services without taxes on detergents and paper goods. They say that billions of dollars in sales taxes are collected on toilet paper alone. This issue should be taken up by the new administration in Washington. A large part of the trillion dollar stimulus package should be given to the states that lift this filthy sales tax---it smells.