I agree with you - if it is mandatory you have it they should not be allowed to tax it - I face the same problem in business - we live in a state in which the liquor and beer distributors have a state granted monopoly - there is no competition. Because there is no competition prices are very high (by design, the higher the price the higher the tax). We pay more for product wholesale than it is sold for at retail n neighboring states. It makes it very hard to compete when neighboring competitors are selling it for less that we can buy it for. Taxes eat your lunch. Anytime government has a way of affecting price it just increases the amount ot taxes they can collect.
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