Why I'm voting 'no' on local use taxes
Thursday, April 3, 2014
It simply strikes me as wrong that the way to level the playing field for local business is to punish people whose shopping choices we don't like by raising their taxes. For background, I owned and operated a technology business in Cape Girardeau for 20 years before selling it in 2007. My business provided computer-related products and services, primarily to other businesses, mostly outside of Cape Girardeau. Over the years, we collected many thousands of dollars in city and county sales taxes from other businesses outside of our immediate area.
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