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AndyA

(16,993 posts)
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:25 AM Feb 2013

Tax Foundation: Oklahoma ranks 5th highest in sales tax

Oklahoma's average state and local combined rate is 8.67 percent, less than a percentage point behind the nation's leading state of Tennessee at 9.44 percent.

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/new-report-state-and-local-sales-tax-rates

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Tax Foundation: Oklahoma ranks 5th highest in sales tax (Original Post) AndyA Feb 2013 OP
and the great part is we get to pay it on every bite of food we buy CBGLuthier Feb 2013 #1
I agree. AndyA Feb 2013 #3
A use based tax that impacts the middle income and lower income classes. TheBlackAdder Feb 2013 #2

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
1. and the great part is we get to pay it on every bite of food we buy
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:26 AM
Feb 2013

sales tax on groceries is unconscionable.

AndyA

(16,993 posts)
3. I agree.
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:39 AM
Feb 2013

But it's nice to know that Governor Fallin is trying to push through tax cuts for the state's most wealthy citizens during this legislative session. Because it worked so well during the Bush era...

This is what people get when they vote for Republicans.

TheBlackAdder

(29,016 posts)
2. A use based tax that impacts the middle income and lower income classes.
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:37 AM
Feb 2013

There is this whole use tax thing going on to make poorer people 'pay their fair share'.

So families with incomes below the poverty line must now pay additional taxes to purchase things.

Those who defend this make it sound like the wealthy share a higher burden, yet they eat and dress themselves in a similar fashion. In fact, an upper middle class person is more likely to use web services to purchase items from other states to avoid paying any state sales tax at all or they will order things from their tax-dodging second home, or tax-dodging business and have it shipped to their home from there.

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