Quote:The reason used goods are not taxed is logistics. For example in the fair tax the burden of tax collection and payments is on the licensed business selling a service or good. So if I buy item X from a business the tax is included in the sticker price. The business is then responsible for determining how many X items it sold and how much in taxes it pays to the government. Now I'm the owner of X item and I'm done with it im going to sell it to you but it would be unreasonable to expect me as a private consumer to collect and pay the taxes on it. They treat the reselling of an item the same regardless if it's from a business or private individual.


Also consumables or non cooked goods are still tax exempt, and there's prebates paid out monthly instead of one time refund checks paid out annually. The prebate is predetermined estimate on the additional cost of the sales tax on low income families that receive a check each month to help cover the cost(it's designed to avoid the dispute over income distribution it's strictly designed just to change how we collect the taxes).

Sure I see personal burden. What about shops that sell collectible card games. I know from personal experience that is big business with tons of money. Are you saying if I went to buy singles from them (cards pulled from packs) that those would be tax free? If that is the case than I'd be interested to see how much sales tax would be lost based on items no longer being taxable. I bet it's a ton. So much that no state would go for it. 

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