There currently is no sales tax in Oregon. What are you buying to create hundreds of dollars in sales tax at say 8.99% anyway?
You have to get into thousands of dollars!
$10,000 @ 8.99% = $899, for instance.
Sales tax is levied by governments and paid by the dealer. They aren't winning any part of the deal and they still have to pay income taxes and other business fees plus the normal expenditures you would think of, as well as sales tax for items bought out of state.
Are we finally understanding markup etc? We aren't talking Farmer Brown's wheat and cattle that made your burger, although that too is about the same with only the scale being different,
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