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Adding sales taxes to houses and rentals would be terrible. Real estate is one place where prices will not go down. All of a sudden your amount financed goes from 200k to 240k.
To make things worse it would only apply to people who purchase a house AFTER the tax goes into effect, meaning first time home buyers and current renters get screwed the hardest. The only way to remedy that would be to retroactively add a tax to all currently owned homes. As if that would happen.
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