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Doesn't Michigan have a 6% sales tax Why do you find 6.5% so surprising

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Alex Levine

Yes we do and I guess the .5 is what threw me off. I was aware that other states had different sales taxes.

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Here in NY, sales tax rate of 8.875%

and lets not forget Costa Rica 13%

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Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

What's odd is each state sets its own rules for what's taxed. NJ exempts newspapers and magazines, but taxes books; exempts clothing; exempts fresh food but taxes prepared food; etcetera. Your state doubtless has similar head-scratchers.
Oh, and about that USE tax--more than one NJ household has been surprised by the tax man coming calling for buying furniture in Delaware (no sales tax), and not paying NJ their proper due. NJ revenue folks can and do audit the records of big-ticket merchants in DE for NJ addresses of purchases and deliveries. They have also been known to stop cars w/ NJ plates coming into NJ with over-the-limit amounts of cigs and booze. Turnabout being fair play, PA does the same to its residents coming back from NJ liquour stores (we have much better selections and lower prices). It's all a game--til you're caught.

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Yeah, but you got year round poosie!!! I can't see why buying clothes is necessary. Just stay in your robe all day as the chicas come and go.

Dean

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my first wingman sent me this, how true

" most of the girls down here, lie as a self defense mechanism and to not have to face the truth, thinking most men couldn't accept them knowing the whole truth. Simpler, they may just want men to think they are as perfect as they want to appear to them, trying to hide what they consider to be the ugly truth about themselves. And I may be reading more into it than is there, but I do believe they consider the basis of the lies to be justified."