New Hampshire doesn't have sales tax because it is an incredibly stubborn state. With the highest property taxes in the galaxy.

Are you suggesting taxing upon receipt as a way to prevent black market profit? I responded to your post thinking that crack was hyperbole, but it's not, is it?

No, taxing != prevention of black market sale. The idea is, the thing has cash value, and cash value supercedes any intimations of emotional value (because the former can be proved and the latter can not), and why shouldn't the government take a cut of a cash transaction? It does that all the time.

(Yes, the crack thing was a joke.)

We didn't have a sales tax! For a week. Only on clothing and shoes, I think.

It was a little odd. I think it was some back-to-school deal or the legislature being weird, because they do that sometimes.

New Hampshire doesn't have sales tax because it is an incredibly stubborn state.

Regardless, when I buy stuff there, the government does not get a cut from me.

the crack thing was a joke

Then why not tax when something's sold, instead of received?

Oh my...there was even a list!

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Underwear question: Slate says jockstraps aren't in vogue anymore. True or false?

Well, Emmett doesn't wear a jockstrap for his cup (which he loves to wear for some reason), but it's a kind of special underwear with a pocket in the front that holds the cup. So from that evidence, I'd say Slate may be right.

Were you wearing a jock when you were Emmett's age, Hec?

(Yes, the crack thing was a joke.)

Right, because in Nutty's case the black market item is much more likely to be scalped Red Sox tickets.

Were you wearing a jock when you were Emmett's age, Hec?

I did, but only for football. And I was a catcher for two years, when I really should've had a jock and cup.

Big Crack would never allow it to be taxable. They got a pretty strong lobby in DC.